Ukrainian army in eastern counteroffensive: Zelenskiy
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that after visiting the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian troops regained seven settlements against the Russian forces on the Eastern Front.
“In fact, our forces are deprived of the invader (Russia) of the opportunity to perform a full -fledged attack operation they have planned and trusting for a long time.” He said.
The Ukrainian forces have taken back 160 km square since the start of the operation and added that more than 170 km and nine settlements were “cleaned from the invaders”.
He did not specify when the operation started.
He described fighting in the middle of August and in the Dobropillia region, an area of rapid Russian progress around the Pokrovsk center.
Reuters could not confirm the state of war on the battlefield due to Russia’s full -scale invasion in February 2022.
The Donetsk region, which was only partially occupied by Russia, but wanted Ukraine to leave before the Kremlin’s peace agreement, continues to be the place of the most intense war.
Local officials said that on Thursday, a Russian -guided bomb strike killed five civilians from 40 km from Dobropillia in Kostantynivka.
The Russian forces came in 8 km of the city, which serves as an important logistics center that defends an area of the façade for the Ukrainian troops.
Authorities said in a statement on Thursday that Russia has delivered more soldiers to Ukraine.
According to the personnel responsible for the Court of War Affairs, Ukraine received 1000 fell soldiers.
International Red Cross was mediating to the revolutions.
Russian military bloggers wrote that although this figure was not officially confirmed, Russia received the remains of 24 soldiers.
Ukraine has been defending himself against the Russian invasion for more than three and a half years.
Since the beginning of the year, Ukraine has remained more than 13,000 soldiers by the Russian.
On the other side, the number is significantly lower.
Due to the slow but stable progress of the Kremlin troops, only a few Russian casualties remained on the Ukrainian side of the front.
US President Donald Trump said that on Thursday, the resolution of the war in Ukraine was more complex than it expected, and Russian President Vladimir Putin disappointed him.
“He disappointed me. He really disappointed me, Tr Trump said at a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Starmer discussed ways to increase military support for Ukraine at meetings.
With DPA
