Vladimir Putin visits war-torn city as Russia launches new deadly assault on Ukraine

Vladimir Putin visited Kursk (Image: Getty)

Vladimir Putin visited the Russian city of Kursk for the first time since his troops pushed Ukrainian forces from the region. The Kremlin said the Russian president met with volunteer organisations and visited the Kursk-II nuclear power plant on Tuesday. State television broadcast the Russian president speaking with local officials in the regiom, including acting governor Alexander Khinshtein.

Putin was accompanied by Kremlin first deputy chief of staff Sergei Kiriyenko. This comes after Russia claimed in late April to have ejected all Ukrainian troops from Kursk, marking an end to the biggest incursion into Russian territory since World War II. Kyiv's forces launched a bold attack into through the Russian border and into Kursk in August last year, two years after the full-scale invasion began.