Vladimir Putin has visited Kursk for the first time since claiming to have completely retaken the Russian region from Ukrainian forces, state media reported on Wednesday, as the Russian president attempts to repel international pressure to agree to a 30-day ceasefire on the other side of the border.

President Vladimir Putin visited Russia's Kursk region for the first time since Moscow claimed that it drove Ukrainian forces out of the area last month, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Putin visited the region bordering Ukraine the previous day,

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the western Kursk region on Tuesday, the first time he stopped by since Russian forces ejected Ukrainian troops from the area.

Russian military officer and air defense unit commander Yuriy Dashkin claims that the helicopter of Vladimir Putin allegedly came under drone attack in the Kursk region and was in the very "epicenter" of the strike.

Russia is sending more troops and bombing Ukraine harder than ever. A top Russian leader shared a map showing nearly all of Ukraine under Russian control. Peace talks have stalled, and Western countries fear the war could grow even bigger this summer.

More than 350 residents of Russia’s southwestern Kursk region have been killed and nearly 800 remain missing following Ukraine’s months-long occupation of the border area, regional authorities said Tuesday.

Ukrainian partisans disrupted the weapons supply schedule for the Russian military group in the Kursk region, according to the ATESH partisan movement. Partisans disabled a relay cabinet on the railway line in the suburb of Yasnogorsk in the Tula region (Russia).