
A year ago this week, President Vladmir Putin commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, praising it as a great feat of the Soviet people during World War II. Fast forward to the present, and Kursk is once again in the spotlight for a very different reason.
Recently, Ukrainian forces launched a swift offensive in the Kursk region, capturing villages, taking prisoners, and displacing tens of thousands of civilians. Russia was caught off guard and is now mobilizing conscripts to counter the attack.