Russian President Vladimir Putin calls on Ukrainian troops fighting in the Kursk region to surrender, after US President Donald Trump urged Putin to “spare” the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.
“We are sympathetic to President Trump’s call,” Putin says in televised remarks. “If they lay down their arms and surrender, they will be guaranteed life and dignified treatment,” Putin adds calling on Ukraine’s leaders to issue an order to their troops to surrender.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that forces are coming under mounting pressure from the Kremlin’s army in the western Russian region.
But the Ukrainian army dismissed claims that thousands of Kyiv’s forces were surrounded by Russian troops.
“There is no threat of our units being encircled,” the General Staff wrote in a statement on social media, which referred specifically to the western Russian region of Kursk.
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