Putin visits reclaimed Kursk region as Russia presses battlefield advantage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Russia threatened to step up military operations if Kyiv refused to hand over territory, including the major cities of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the official said.
55% : Ukraine's General Staff said this week military operations continue in Kursk "to provide a buffer zone" inside Russia "in order to prevent a new offensive campaign by the enemy in the Sumy and Kharkiv directions". Ukraine holds less than 30 sq km in the Kursk region, having captured around 1,000 sq km in its incursion in August, according to Deep State, a group of Ukrainian analysts with ties to the military who map the battlefield.

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