Why has Ukraine launched a raid into Russia’s Kursk region?

Vladimir Putin called the attack a "provocation", but Kyiv's objectives are not immediately clear.

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One of Ukraine’s biggest battlefield issues is manpower. Russia has more soldiers and is inching closer to the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk.

So, sending hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers into Russia itself is, shall we say, counterintuitive in the eyes of some.

But not all.

“It wasn’t accidental,” said war expert Kostyantyn Mashovets in a Facebook post. “It’s clearly part of one clear plan."

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