There are 74 settlements below the management of Ukraine,” Zelensky mentioned.
Kyiv:
Ukraine now controls 74 settlements in Russia’s Kursk border area, the nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Tuesday.
The governor of the Kursk area, the place Ukraine is mounting a week-long incursion, beforehand mentioned Monday that Ukraine controls 28 settlements.
“There are 74 settlements below the management of Ukraine,” Zelensky mentioned in his night deal with.
The president mentioned that “regardless of troublesome, intense preventing, the advance of our forces within the Kursk area continues.”
He posted footage exhibiting him holding a video name with army chief Oleksandr Syrsky.
Syrsky tells him: “As of immediately, our troops have superior in some areas by 1 to three kilometres.”
Within the final day, Ukraine has taken “over 40 sq. kilometres of territory”, Syrsky provides, after saying Monday that the troops maintain round 1,000 sq. kilometres of Russian territory.
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