Putin on Saturday hailed what he said was the complete failure of an offensive by Ukrainian forces in Kursk after Moscow said they had been expelled from the last village they had been holding. Kyiv said its forces had not been completely expelled from Kursk and said they were also still operating in Belgorod,

Russia’s Foreign Ministry called it a “terrorist attack,” and surveillance footage showed a car exploding as Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik was approaching it in a Moscow suburb.