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Up to 1,000 Ukrainian troops in border attack: Russian army chief

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Russia’s army chief Valery Gerasimov told President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that up to 1,000 Ukrainian troops took part in a cross-border attack on Russia’s Kursk region.

In a video conference with Putin and defence and security officials, Chief of Russia’s General Staff Gerasimov said that on Tuesday morning “a unit of Ukraine’s armed forces numbering up 1,000 people went on the offensive”, aiming to seize Russian territory.

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