R. Scott Pert<p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a> - Putin demands Kursk total victory ahead of Moscow talks with Trump envoy</p><p>> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/VladimirPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VladimirPutin</span></a> visited a command center in <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Kursk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kursk</span></a> on Wednesday, ordering troops there to "destroy" all Ukrainian formations remaining in the contested border region</p><p>> "Your task is to completely destroy the enemy, which has entrenched itself in the Kursk region and is still conducting warfare here, and fully liberate the Kursk region" <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-demands-kursk-total-victory-ahead-moscow-talks/story?id=119743582" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/International/p</span><span class="invisible">utin-demands-kursk-total-victory-ahead-moscow-talks/story?id=119743582</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/UkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkraineWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>