kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine controls 74 towns in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Kiev forces launched a large-scale operation a week ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.
“There are 74 settlements under Ukraine’s control,” Zelensky said in his evening speech, after the Kursk regional governor said on Monday that Ukraine controlled 28 settlements.
“Despite the difficult and intense fighting, the advance of our forces in the Kursk region continues,” the Ukrainian leader added.
Zelensky posted footage of himself holding a video call with military chief Oleksander Sirski, the latter saying that “as of today” Ukrainian troops “have advanced in some areas by 1-3 kilometers.”
Over the past day, Ukraine has seized “more than 40 square kilometres of territory,” Sirski added, after saying on Monday that troops controlled some 1,000 square kilometres of Russian territory.
Sumy region. An anti-tank system, known as ‘dragon’s teeth’, covers a field on the Russian-Ukrainian border, in this region of Ukraine. Photo AP / Evgeniy Mamoletka
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