An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had helped to plan Ukraine's surprise attack on Russia's Kursk region, something Washington has denied.
The lightning incursion, the biggest into Russia by a foreign power since World War Two, unfurled on August 6 when thousands of Ukrainian troops crossed Russia's western border in a major embarrassment for Putin's military.
Ukraine said the incursion was needed to force Russia, which sent its forces into Ukraine in 2022, to start "fair" peace talks.
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