That’s because one of Trump’s proposals is for Ukraine and Russia to agree to an armistice along the current front line. And the current front line threads through southern and eastern Ukraine before looping into Kursk, where a powerful Ukrainian force invaded back in August.

Russian marines, together with the North Korean military, launched an offensive in the Kursk region on November 7. But they suffered losses, according to Forbes. “Russian marines apparently backed by North Korean reinforcements threw themselves at Ukrainian positions in Kursk Oblast in western Russia on Thursday,

Marines of the aggressor country russia, probably with the support of the North Korean military, tried to storm the positions of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk