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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made his first visit to the border area since his forces launched a surprise offensive into Russia’s Kursk region earlier this month. Speaking to military officials in Sumy, Zelenskyy said the new POWs from Kursk would help build an “exchange fund” to swap for captured Ukrainians. “Another settlement in the Kursk region is now under Ukrainian control and we have replenished the exchange fund,” Zelenskyy wrote on X after hearing a report from his country’s top military commander, Oleksander Syrsky. Zelenskyy did not name the newly captured village and…

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