After a number of months of fierce combating, Ukraine says it has stopped a Russian advance in north-east Ukraine.
“As of right now, we are able to state that the Russian offensive operation in (the Sumy area) has been fully foiled by our forces,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyi wrote in a publish on Telegram following a session with the military management, together with military commander-in-chief Olexander Syrskyi.
The combating within the border areas was persevering with, however the Russian group was not able to assault, Zelensky asserted.
In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as once more declared that the Russian military ought to conquer a buffer zone of round 10 kilometres within the Ukrainian border area of Sumy.
This was meant to forestall Ukrainian advances, together with into the western Russian area of Kursk, as was the case final yr.
Based on Ukrainian navy observers, Russian troops proceed to regulate greater than 200 sq. kilometres within the Sumy area.
Ukraine has been defending itself towards a Russian invasion for greater than three and a half years with Western assist.
Together with the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed in 2014, virtually a fifth of Ukraine’s territory is now below Russian management.
