Zelensky: Russia Lost Six Thousand Soldiers In Kursk region

• 6.09.2024, 12:13

Ukraine controls 100 settlements in this Russian region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky summed up the results of the first month of the Armed Forces operation in the Kursk region of Russia, which began on August 6, during a meeting of the Rammstein contact group on defense.

“Today is exactly one month since the beginning of our operation in the Kursk region of Russia. This is the borderland from which Putin was preparing to spread the war to Ukrainian territory. He was preparing to launch a new offensive against our city of Sumy. We turned the game around and are pushing the war into Russian territory thanks to our counteroffensive,” Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian president said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces currently control 1,300 square kilometers in the Kursk region, where there are more than 100 settlements.

“A significant part of this territory was simply abandoned by Russian troops. They simply ran away when they saw our troops approaching,” Zelensky said.

The president also noted that during the first month of the military operation in Kursk, Russian troops lost approximately 6,000 soldiers killed and wounded.