While the world’s media was focused on the photo-ops and other atmospherics of President Trump’s 15-minute tete-a-tete with Ukraine’s Zelensky at the Vatican—and the notable absence of a follow-up meeting between the two, despite Zelensky’s announcement that it would occur—Russian President Vladimir Putin announced at the Kremlin Saturday morning that Russian military forces had fully expelled invading Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region of Russia.
“The Kyiv regime’s adventure has completely failed,” Putin said in a televised exchange with Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov. A sober, determined Putin thanked Russian service members “who took part in defeating the neo-Nazi groups” that invaded the region last summer, RT reported.
