Russia is attempting to normalize the Ukraine invasion, despite Putin's inability to stop the conflict on his own territory, according to a report.

Russian officials are trying to minimize the impact of Ukraine's invasion into the Kursk region, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has been unable to halt Kyiv's advances for two weeks, according to a report by independent Russian news outlet Meduza.

Last week, a report emerged stating that the Kremlin has started pushing government-funded media agencies to downplay the severity of the Ukrainian incursion and to launch a propaganda campaign promoting the "new normal" to Russians.

Ukraine has captured more than 780 square miles of Kursk, including the town of Sudhza, as well as nearly 100 Russian villages, according to Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on Tuesday. However, Planet Chronicle Digital could not independently verify the report.

Moscow is using humanitarian assistance drives and promises to regain control of the Kursk region after Ukraine's defeat on its eastern front, according to the report.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President, stated that he has no intention of keeping his troops in southwestern Russia permanently. He explained that their presence there is only temporary and serves as a "buffer zone" to prevent Russian attacks in the northern Sumy region.

On Thursday, Zelenskyy visited Sumy and met with military officials, indicating a decrease in Russian attacks in the Ukrainian border region after the earlier incursion. He refrained from crossing the Russian border into Kursk to avoid being perceived as provocative by Moscow.

The objectives of Kyiv's operations in Kursk are not clear, and some speculate it may be a ploy to divert Russian forces from the front lines in eastern Ukraine.

The Meduza report indicates that Russian officials propose that Ukrainian forces may stay in the region for several months, implying that Putin is either unable or unwilling to quickly deploy the required number of troops to regain control of Kursk.

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Russia had reallocated approximately 5,000 troops from its operations in Donetsk to counter Ukraine's alleged 6,000 forces in Kursk within the first week of Kyiv's incursion.

The report stated that Russia would need to deploy approximately 20,000 troops to successfully remove Ukrainian forces from the Russian border region, according to a source familiar with the operation.

On Wednesday, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) evaluated that Putin and his military leaders are relying on Ukraine's inability to maintain its resistance against Russia's attrition war due to its artillery shortages, which were intensified by the delays in the delivery of U.S. arms packages during the winter and spring months of this year.

The Kremlin's theory of victory in Ukraine is based on the assumption that Russian forces can prevent Ukraine from challenging the initiative in the theater indefinitely, according to the ISW.

Despite Ukraine's artillery disadvantage, Kyiv has successfully countered Russian advances through the use of drone and long-range missile strikes.

The assessment stated that neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces possess the ability to execute individual decisive operations and must instead engage in multiple successful operations with limited objectives to achieve strategic goals.

The mandatory evacuations in Donetsk have caused concerns about Russian advances.