Kremlin Is Treating Ukraine’s Incursion Like a Natural Disaster
- State media focus on aid to people fleeing fighting in Kursk
- Putin confronts first foreign military intervention since WWII
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With a foreign army fighting on Russian soil for the first time in 80 years, President Vladimir Putin gathered top officials Friday at his regular security council meeting for a report by Defense Minister Andrey Belousov.
The main topic wasn’t Ukraine’s shock seizure of territory in Russia’s Kursk border region. Putin said they’d discuss “new technical solutions adopted during the special military operation,” Russia’s euphemism for its war in Ukraine, in a brief televised excerpt.