Russia said on Saturday, April 26, the complete resumption of its Koursk border region on Saturday, April 26, which after which kyiv described this announcement intervened in the Plenary Diplomatic Effervescence about the result of the “false” and “propaganda conflict”. At the same time, Volodymyr Zelensky met Donald Trump in Rome outside Pope Francis’s funeral.
The Russian Army personnel head, Valéri Guérassimov, announced to President Vladimir Putin that “today, the last town in the territory of the Koursk region, the village of Gornal, was released from the Ukrainian units”, during a meeting of videoconference and transmission on Russian state television.
The Ukrainian forces had entered in August 2024, still occupying some pockets until then.
Vladimir Putin had made it clear that he was not ready to negotiate the result of the conflict launched by the assault of his forces against Ukraine in 2022 provided that the Ukrainian forces were not completely “persecuted” of the Koursk region.
For several weeks, kyiv troops have returned in decline in this area of the front, the Russian army gradually incorporating from the territory. Initially they occupied several hundred square kilometers, before the pocket under their control is reduced to sadness in recent days.
“Propaganda maneuvers”
“The adventure of the kyiv regime has failed completely,” said Vladimir Putin immediately.
“The complete defeat of the enemy creates the conditions for our troops to continue acting successfully in other important areas of the front and address the defeat of the neo -Nazi regime” of kyiv, he continued, using his usual rhetoric to qualify the administration of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to the Kremlin teacher, the total recovery of the Russian region of Koursk and “the enormous losses” suffered by the Ukrainians “will certainly affect the entire contact line.”
The Ukrainian army quickly denounced “false” information, swearing that the fights “continue” in the area. “The statements of enemy leaders about the ‘defeat’ of Ukrainian forces are nothing more than propaganda maneuvers,” he said in a statement.
“There is no threat to surround our units,” said this source, however, evoking a “difficult” situation.
Russian greetings “heroism” of North Korean soldiers
In addition, the Russian Cabinet Chief Valéri Guérassimov praised in his speech “The Heroism” of the North Korean combatants mobilized to take care of the Koursk region, the first official confirmation of Moscow of “participation”, in his words, of his soldiers with hostilities in this area.
“The soldiers and officers of the North Korean army, who fought next to the Russian soldiers, showed great professionalism, resistance, courage and heroism to repel the Ukrainian invasion,” he said, congratulating the “significant help” brought.
For several months, kyiv, South and Western Korea denounced the participation of several thousand North Korean soldiers in the fighting, which Moscow and Pyongyang had always refused to admit.
Russia and North Korea signed in June 2024 a common strategic association agreement that establishes “mutual” military aid in case of an attack on one of the two countries.
Source: BFM TV
