There are 74 settlements under the control of Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
Kiev:
Ukraine now controls 74 settlements in Russia’s Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.
The governor of the Kursk region, where Ukraine is preparing a week-long incursion, said earlier 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 difficult, intense fighting, the advance of our troops in the Kursk region continues.”
He posted footage showing him having a video call with military chief Oleksandr Syrsky.
Syrsky tells him, “As of today, our forces have advanced 1 to 3 kilometers in some areas.”
In the past day, Ukraine has taken “more than 40 square kilometers of territory,” Syrsky added, after saying on Monday that troops control about 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory.
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