Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 sq km of Russian border region
Welcome to our coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict amid the dramatic incursion into Kursk by Kyiv’s forces. On Tuesday, Russia’s foreign intelligence services accused Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, of taking “insane” steps that threaten to escalate the war far beyond his country, according to a report from Russia’s RIA state news service.
It comes as Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square km of the Kursk region, Associated Press reports. General Oleksandr Syrskyi made the statement in a video posted on Monday to Zelenskiy’s Telegram channel. In the video, he briefed the president on the frontline situation. “The troops are fulfilling their tasks. Fighting continues actually along the entire front line. The situation is under our control,” Syrskyi said.
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