INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia on Wednesday said that 288 civilians were killed during Ukraine's months-long incursion into the Kursk region, which Moscow claimed
to have fully cleared of Kyiv's forces over the weekend.Kyiv sent its troops across the border in August 2024 as a riposte to Moscow's
full-scale invasion of Ukraine.The Kremlin said in recent days that it had, with the help of North Korean troops, ousted Ukrainian troops
from the western border region, while Kyiv said it is still fighting there."According to Health Ministry data, since August, the health of
791 people was harmed, of which 288 were killed," the governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinstein, said on social media.He added that
the authorities were far from recovering all the bodies of killed civilians from the border areas.Khinstein gave no details on how the
civilians died.President Vladimir Putin has vowed to punish any Ukrainian troops taken captive in the Kursk region and treat them as
"terrorists."Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a conflict that has since killed thousands.
