KURSK REGION. March 12 (Interfax) - Russian forces are continuing to destroy Ukrainian military units in the Kursk region and expect to clear it within the shortest possible time, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff Valery Gerasimov said.
"The Russian Armed Forces are continuing to destroy units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region and are tasked with completing the liberation of the region's territory and reaching the Russian state border within the shortest possible time," Gerasimov said in a report to President Vladimir Putin at a command post of the Kursk group of forces.