INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia said Saturday it had retaken two more villages from Ukrainian forces in its Kursk border region where it has launched an offensive to
wrest back seized territory.Moscow has pushed this week to retake a large part of the land that Ukraine originally captured in its western
town of Sudzha, the main town that Moscow reclaimed this week.Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier called on embattled Ukrainian
troops in Kursk to "surrender," while his U.S
counterpart Donald Trump urged the Kremlin to spare their lives."If they lay down their arms and surrender, they will be guaranteed life and
dignified treatment," Putin said Friday.Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky denied Saturday any "encirclement" of his troops by Moscow's
forces in Russia's Kursk region, a day after U.S
President Donald Trump made the claim."There is no encirclement of our troops," Zelensky said on social media, adding: "Our troops continue
to hold back Russian and North Korean groupings in the Kursk region."The Ukrainian army on Saturday published a map on social media that
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