With its daring incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine has attempted to reshuffle the cards in the conflict after months of paralysis in its eastern Donbas region. It exposed Russian military weaknesses and could strengthen Ukraine’s position at the negotiating table.
A Ukrainian soldier scrambles up the wall of a village school in Russia’s Kursk region near the western border with Ukraine. Hoisted by a colleague, he reaches a red, white and blue Russian flag flapping in the summer breeze and tears it down to resounding cheers from Ukrainian soldiers gathered to mark the event, many recording the scene on their mobile phones.
