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Sources: Helicopter mission was a Kremlin PR stunt

The Kremlin wanted to make it appear that Vladimir Putin was caught in the middle of a Ukrainian drone attack when he visited Kursk last week, but the stunt was a PR stunt aimed at the domestic audience, Russian sources tell the independent Moscow Times.

The sources say that Putin was indeed in Kursk, which is frequently targeted by Ukrainian drone attacks, but that the statement that his helicopter was in the “epicenter” of such an attack was a way of claiming that Putin is willing to risk his life for the war.