Zelenskiy said Ukrainian troops have made progress in the Sumi-Myanmar border area
Reuters – Ukrainian forces were promoted to a region where Russian troops were trying to establish a foothold in the northern border of Sumi, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.
Zelenskiy also quoted Ukraine’s top commander in his night video address, saying Moscow’s troops suffered huge losses in the Donetsk and Kharkif regions on the 1,000-km (620-mile) front.
Zelenskiy made a week of Russian remarks, highlighting the benefits of the central dnipropetrovsk region described by Moscow.
Russian troops have made a slow push in eastern Ukraine, announcing arrested villages almost every day.
Moscow has annexed four regions it partially occupied – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhiya and Helsen – but without Dany Propetrovsk, it has so far occupied a series of villages along the edge of the administrative border.
“There are great results in the border areas of the Sumi region,” Zelensky said. “Our troops are continuing to move towards the Ukrainian national border.”
Since the expulsion of Ukrainian troops from Russia’s Kursk region earlier this year, Russian troops have tried to establish what the Kremlin calls a buffer zone in the Sumi region. Russia often shells larger towns, including Sumi City.
The Russian army suffered significant losses near Kupiansk, a region located in northeastern Russia, under continued pressure from Russia for months, Zelenskiy said.
“We continue to operate in the direction of Dubropia,” he said, referring to a small town near Pokrovsk, one of the focal points of Russia’s long-term crossing of the Donetsk region. “It’s important that the Russian attack was repelled by our boys.”
Moscow-controlled Denis Pushilin said in a video posted online that the head of parts of the Donatsk region of Russia had put pressure near villages near Pokrovsk.
Helson Region Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in the western region that two people died in shelling and drone attacks in different parts of the region.
(Reported by Ron Popeski and Bogdan Kochubey; Editor of Lisa Shumaker)
