By Ben Aris in Berlin It’s a lull before the storm. The Kremlin has begun a mandatory evacuation of the civilian population from the Kursk six days after the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) invaded Russia and is redeploying significant numbers of troops from the frontline in Donbas to the region. The coming week could see the first major clash as the Kremlin attempts to retake territory in the first occupation of Russian land since WWII. Putin has refused to call the attack an “invasion” or even an “incursion”, referring to it exclusively as a “large scale provocation” in meetings with his top b…