Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Ukraine to surrender its position in the Kursk region of Russia in order to “effectively implement” President Donald Trump’s call to “spare” the lives of Ukrainian soldiers, Russia-owned news outlet TASS reported Friday.
Putin made the demand during an operational meeting of the Security Council of Russia, according to TASS. He was responding to Trump’s social media post earlier in the day, asking Putin to refrain from killing Ukrainian troops he said have been surrounded in the region.
Ukrainian forces took control of about 100 settlements in a surprise incursion into Russia last August. However, Russia recaptured 28 settlements in its western Kursk region in a counteroffensive the past week and took control of the village of Noven’ke in Ukraine’s adjacent Sumy region, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
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