Marcus Faber, chair of the German Bundestag defense committee, said Ukraine's Kursk operation shows Putin has no control and provides a foundation for negotiations with his successor.
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The Kursk operation shows Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has no control over anything and lays a good foundation for negotiations with his successor
Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi briefs Zelensky on the situation in Kursk Oblast, claiming that Ukrainian forces control about 1,000 square kilometers
Putin dispatched Alexander Dyumin to coordinate military actions in the Kursk region on August 12
Dyumin was put in charge of the military operation in the Kursk region
Putin delegated overlapping tasks to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Federal Security Service, and Rosgvardia in the border area
Putin interrupted the acting governor when he started talking about loss of control over territories and advance of Ukrainian military
On 12 August, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy officially confirmed that Ukraine was conducting an operation in the Kursk region of Russia.
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