Russia Considers ‘Buffer Zone’ With Ukraine Amid Persistent Cross-Border Attacks

Moscow claims incursions were aimed at disrupting presidential election won—unsurprisingly—by longstanding leader Vladimir Putin.
Russia Considers ‘Buffer Zone’ With Ukraine Amid Persistent Cross-Border Attacks
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his presidential campaign headquarters in Moscow on March 18, 2024. Natalia Kolesnikova/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Adam Morrow
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Russia is thinking of creating a “buffer zone” along its border with northeastern Ukraine amid persistent cross-border attacks on its western Kursk and Belgorod regions.

“I don’t rule out the possibility that we will be forced at some point ... to create a ‘sanitary zone’ in the territories that are currently under the Kyiv regime,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 18.