Putin's slow response to the Kursk attack could test the patience of some of his backers in Russia
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk in World War II at a memorial in the village of Ponyri, near Kursk, Russia, on Aug. 23, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)FILE - A destroyed Russian tank sits on a roadside near the town of Sudzha, Russia, in the Kursk region, on Aug. 16, 2024. This image was approved by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry before publication. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Residents shelter in a basement in the Kursk region town of Sudzha, Russia, on Aug. 16, 2024. This image was approved by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry before publication. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin greets an unidentified relative of a seaman who was believed killed aboard the nuclear submarine Kursk at the military base of Vedyayevo, 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Murmansk, Russia, on Aug. 22, 2000. (AP Photo/POOL, File)FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to acting Gov. Alexei Smirnov of the Kursk region during a videoconference at Putins Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 8, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)FILE - Russian Presdient Vladimir Putin, left, and Nadezhda Shakhatinina, mother of Alexei Nikolayev, a sailor killed in the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk in 2000, stand near Nikolayev's grave in Kursk, about 450 kilometers (285 miles) south of Moscow, on Aug.19, 2003. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he talks to journalists before a series of meetings with leaders of seven other former Soviet republics in the Black Sea resort of Yalta, on Aug. 18, 2000. Putin attended the summit despite the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk days earlier. (AP Photo/Alexander Natruskin/Pool, File)FILE - A damaged monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin stands in a central square in the Kursk region town Sudzha, Russia, on Aug. 16, 2024. This image was approved by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry before publication. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an event to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk in World War II at a memorial in the village of Ponyri, near Kursk, Russia, on Aug. 23, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)