Kursk incursion: Putin sends reinforcements to battle Ukraine's Russia attack
The Kremlin sent reinforcements to the Kursk region Friday as Vladimir Putin's forces struggled to repel Ukraine's border incursion and battles raged in Russia.
A convoy of burnt-out military trucks, some bearing the "Z" symbol of the Kremlin’s war and appearing to contain bodies, sits along the side of a highway.
But the video, circulating on social media Friday and geolocated by NBC News, doesn’t show a beleaguered section of the front lines in eastern Ukraine. It is a village in Kursk, across the border in southern Russia.
For days now, Vladimir Putin’s forces have struggled to put down an incursion into Russian territory by Ukrainian troops, a surprise attack that threatens to upend the war’s status quo and open a new front in a daring challenge to the Kremlin.
The unprecedented assault entered its fourth day Friday with battles still raging and Moscow rushing reinforcements and bombing its own territory to try to contain the Ukrainian advance.
The operation has left observers struggling to track fast-moving developments on the ground — and to figure out Kyiv’s strategy in launching the attack while its forces are still struggling in several of the conflict’s longtime flashpoints.
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