Ukraine He said his troops had made new advances in Russia and they already control more than a thousand km there2while his opponent claimed to have recovered a village taken by forces under the orders of the government of Kiev and that he would send reinforcements to the area.
In the framework of the largest attack by an army against Russian soil since the World War IIthe Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky He said that his forces had taken Sudzhawith 5,500 inhabitants, the largest town since the start of the surprise incursion, eight km from the border.
“Since the beginning of operations in the region of Kursk, Our troops advanced 35 kilometers inland” and took “82 towns” in an area of 1,150 km2he added, at a meeting with the head of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Sirski.
The large-scale attack broke a streak of several months of setbacks by the troops of the former Soviet republic, which had been facing a Russian invasion for two and a half years.
For their part, Russian troops reported the capture of Ivanivkaa Ukrainian town on the front line, just 15 km from the city of Pokrovsk, which is key to supplying Ukrainian forces. The Russian army has been advancing towards Pokrovsk for months.
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