CNN —It is another coin-flip in a conflict punctuated with at least annual reminders of how frail Vladimir Putin’s Russia truly is.
It is purposefully unclear exactly where Ukraine’s forces are.
It is also unclear where Ukrainian forces are digging in and where they are just racing through.
This time it is Putin’s own FSB, who couldn’t keep control of the borders, in Putin’s war of choice.
Residents of an apartment building damaged after shelling by the Ukrainian side stand near the building in Kursk, Russia, on Sunday.
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