Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, dressed in fatigues, visited a command post near the front in Kursk late Wednesday to cheer on his military’s ejection of Ukrainian forces from much of the territory they had been occupying in the Russian border region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday was shown on Russian television visiting troops involved in the counteroffensive in the Kursk region and listening to a report on their progress. Putin was shown seated wearing a camouflage-print shirt in a room listening to a report by the Russian armed forces chief of staff,