Ukraine’s Kursk incursion ‘has lifted the morale of fighting troops & the people behind frontlines’

A Ukrainian presidential adviser said on Friday that Kyiv’s cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region was required to convince Moscow to start "fair" peace talks. Mykhailo Podolyak said Ukraine had no interest in occupying Kursk but it had to force Russia to start talks on Kyiv’s terms. As Ukraine’s cross-border assault on Russia enters its second week, FRANCE 24’s Delano D’Souza is joined by Peter Zalmayev, Director of the Eurasian Democracy Initiative.

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