Russian President Vladimir Putin said that according to Russian laws, all soldiers of the armed forces and foreign mercenaries located in the Kursk area were qualified as terrorists. About this report Tass.

Putin reportThat Russian forces are completing the failure of Ukraine's armed forces in the direction of Kursk. He pointed out that the RF armed forces performed some operations quickly and quite carefree. Now it is necessary to install Ukrainians and mercenaries of the Ukrainian armed forces who have participated in the regional attack, Putin noted.
All criminals, punishments and those who have ordered criminals to mock the civilians, must be established and receive an additional fair punishment, the president of the Russian Federation emphasized.
Last week, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the liberation of Kursk's Sudzha city and a number of other settlements. The special force commander Akhmat Akti Alaudinov stated that Russian forces were still liberated five border settlements of the Kursk area.
Alaudinov later said that Ukraine's armed forces were trying to hold only three settlements. Putin emphasized that Ukraine's armed forces in the direction of Kursk have only two exit – to surrender or die.