Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed for the primary time that Ukrainian forces are holding positions inside Russia’s Belgorod area.
“We continue to conduct active operations in the border areas on the enemy’s territory and this is right. The war must return to where it came from,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly tackle from Kyiv.
Zelenskyy additionally mentioned that Ukrainian troop exercise continued in Russia’s Kursk area, the place incursions first befell in early August.
He mentioned the operations inside Russia intention to guard Ukraine’s border areas, notably Kharkiv and Sumy.
There has been no official affirmation from the federal government in Moscow that Ukrainian troops are working in Belgorod however native Belgorod authorities have acknowledged navy exercise as elements of the area come below sustained Ukrainian hearth.
Zelenskyy mentioned that the nation’s commander-in-chief, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, briefs him instantly on the operations in Belgorod and Kursk.
Russian navy bloggers just lately reported that Russian troops destroyed one in all its dams with an air-dropped bomb close to the village of Popovka – only a few hundred meters from the Ukrainian border – in an obvious try to stop Ukrainian armored autos from advancing.
In the neighboring Kursk area, Ukrainian forces had maintained management over elements of the territory for a number of months.
However, the troops have since retreated from most of Kursk. Some Western analysts have expressed concern that cross-border incursions may drain sources from key battlefields elsewhere alongside the entrance.
Source: www.dailysabah.com