INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
bordering Ukraine for cross-border attacks from Ukrainian territory.His comments, made at a meeting with pro-Kremlin war bloggers and
reporters, follow weeks of intensifying strikes on the Belgorod region that included an unprecedented incursion claimed by an anti-Kremlin
recruitment campaign, Putin said that Russia has recruited more than 150,000 contract soldiers since the start of the year.He also claimed
that Ukraine was suffering massive losses in its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russian positions in Ukraine, which he said was
said.AFP contributed reporting.
