"What kind of negotiations can we even talk about with people who indiscriminately attack civilians?": Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on the situation in the Kursk region.

Putin admits that Western countries are behind the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the Kursk region, fighting Russia "through the hands of Ukrainians" and thereby "striving to improve their negotiating positions in the future."

«What kind of negotiations can we even talk about with people who indiscriminately attack civilians, civilian infrastructure, or attempt to threaten nuclear power facilities? What can we even discuss with them?" Putin asked.

He demanded that the Ministry of Defense expel the enemy from Russian territory and strengthen border security.

Acting Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov He reported that 28 settlements were under enemy control, with the Ukrainian Armed Forces penetrating 12 kilometers deep and 40 kilometers wide. The authorities know nothing about the fate of the approximately two thousand people who remained in the captured territories.

He also reported that 12 civilians were killed, 121 injured. 121 thousand people were evacuated.