And he said Zelensky In his evening video speech, “The conditions in my area Donetsk And Zaporizhya, which is partly controlled by Russia, is very difficult…but the resilience of our units is crucial. Everything depends on our resilience.”
On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the control of Ostrevsky, a village located on a reservoir near the town KurakhovIt is a major Russian target in the advance of forces through the Donetsk region.
And she did not confess Ukraine With the loss of the village, military bloggers spoke of Russian advances in the region.
And I mentioned General Staff of the Ukrainian Army In its report late in the evening that 74 clashes took place in the area around Kurakhov, while the sector witnessed Pokrovsk In the northwest 27 other clashes.
And in Turetsk In the northeast, which Ukrainian and Russian forces say Russian forces Partially occupied, the General Staff said Russian forces launched 14 attacks supported by air strikes.
Position in Kursk
On the other hand, Zelensky said that Russian forces tried to expel their Ukrainian counterparts from their positions in the area Kursk On the border between the two countries, but Kiev forces are still clinging to their positions.
“With regard to the Kursk operation, Russia tried to push us away from our positions, but we are standing,” Zelensky added in his speech.
She said Russian Ministry of Defence On Friday, its forces regained control of two towns in the Kursk border region, where it started Ukrainian forces Large-scale incursion in August.
Zelensky said that the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk aims to remove… Russian forces About its positions on the front line in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army has been making continuous gains for months.
