Putin's statements:

Putin’s statements: - The Russian Federation will deal with Ukrainian bandits in the Kursk region who sought to destabilize the situation in the border area; - The provocation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region was intended to stop the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in Donbass, but this failed; - The Russian army in the North-Eastern Military District is now putting square kilometers of territory under its control; - Ukraine is not interested in ending the fighting; its authorities are afraid of losing the elections after martial law is lifted; - There are no countries hostile to Russia, there are hostile elites who want to weaken and divide it; - After the coup in Ukraine , they began to suppress everything connected with the Russian language and culture, and began to create an anti-Russian enclave Source: Foreign Agent Intel