Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, dressed in fatigues, visited a command post near the front in Kursk late Wednesday to cheer on his military’s ejection of Ukrainian forces from much of the territory they had been occupying in the Russian border region.

President Vladimir Putin has visited the western Russian region of Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region. Appearing on Russian state television dressed in a pixilated military uniform,

President Vladimir Putin has unexpectedly visited a command post in Kursk in the war zone in view of the successful counteroffensive by his troops in the Russian-Ukrainian border region. Putin ordered Russian troops to expel the remaining Ukrainian units from Kursk,