Has Russia really kicked Ukraine out of Kursk?
After months of fighting, Kursk's liberation was heralded by grainy drone footage of a soldier waving a Russian tricolour from the roof of a ruined house.
The video, published on Saturday by Russian military bloggers, was apparently shot in the village of Gornal, the last outpost held by Ukraine on Russian soil.
Wasting no time, President Putin made an announcement he had ached to deliver for eight months, declaring the complete eviction of Ukrainian forces from the region.
Kyiv has rejected this claim as a 'wishful thinking', however. Independent assessments suggest that although Russia has mostly recaptured Ukrainian positions in Kursk, the borderlands remain a grey zone of contested territory.
Rybar, an authoritative Russian military blogger, said on Monday that Ukrainian troops remained in gullies
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