There are 74 settlements under Ukrainian control,” Zelensky said.
Kyiv:
Ukraine now controls 74 settlements in the Russian border region of Kursk, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.
The governor of the Kursk region, where Ukraine is staging a week-long incursion, said earlier on Monday that Ukraine controls 28 settlements.
“There are 74 settlements under the control of Ukraine,” Zelensky said in his evening speech.
The president said that “despite the difficult and intense fighting, the advance of our forces in the Kursk region continues”.
He posted images showing him having a video call with military chief Oleksandr Syrsky.
Syrsky tells him, “To date, our troops have advanced in some areas by 1 to 3 kilometers.”
In the last day, Ukraine occupied “more than 40 square kilometers of territory”, adds Syrsky, after stating on Monday that troops hold around 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory.
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