April 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—President Vladimir Putin announced on April 26 that the Russian armed forces had succeeded in fully expelling the Ukrainian military from the Kursk region of Russia, which Ukraine had invaded nearly nine months ago, on Aug. 6, 2024. In a solemn, televised exchange with Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Putin made it clear that Russia intends to keep fighting until a peace can be negotiated which takes Russia’s security concerns fully into account. “The complete defeat of the enemy in the Kursk border area creates conditions for further successful actions by our troops in other important areas of the front,” Putin told Gerasimov.
