Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Kursk Oblast, his first since Russia claimed to have routed the Ukrainian counter-invasion of the region, accusing the Ukrainian troops that had occupied it of acting like “Neo-Nazis”.

Putin visited an under-construction nuclear power plant and spoke to “volunteers” working in the Kursk Oblast (region) on Tuesday, the Kremlin revealed on Wednesday. He last visited the region in March, but this is the first since Russian forces claimed to have liberated the territory from Ukraine’s counter-occupation, a bid to relieve pressure from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Despite Russia’s assertions that the region is now back under control, Kyiv still claims to hold some Russian territory and war maps produced by the Institute for the Study of War sugg

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