‘Doing the least obvious thing’: Ukraine embarrasses Putin with surprise assault on southern Russia‘Doing the least obvious thing’: Ukraine embarrasses Putin with surprise assault on southern Russia 

At a Kremlin meeting on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin fixed the commander in chief of Russia’s military, General Valery Gerasimov, with a cold stare and a look of exasperation. The video, released Wednesday by the Kremlin, showed the Russian president was not happy with news from the southern region of Kursk.