Putin has described the incursion as a “large-scale provocation.”

What? More of a large-scale provocation than INVADING ANOTHER COUNTRY and STARTING A WAR??

“The Russian Defense Ministry called it one of the largest cross-border incursions of the war as the Russian military and border guards block Ukrainian forces from pushing deeper into the region in southwestern Russia.”

Source: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-kursk-fighting-sudzha-a49c55fc367bcbaed2e95e515bf99b80