RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin held a meeting at a command post of the Kursk group of forces, state agency TASS reported, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. Notably, Kursk is the only Russian province, where Ukraine has been able to gain some control, during the course of this ongoing war. As the fighting rages, Russian forces entered the Sumy Region in certain areas of the Kursk region, Army General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and first deputy defense minister, reported to President Vladimir Putin, as reported by state agency TASS.
Gerasimov said that about 430 Ukrainian servicemen were captured in the Kursk Region.
“The Ukrainian military, seeing futility of further resistance, started surrendering. Four hundred and thirty fighters were captured,” he said.
Gerasimov told Russian President Vladimir Putin that 24 settlements and 259 square kilometres of territory in the Kursk region have been liberated by Russian soldiers over the past five days, TASS reported.
“During five days alone, the Kursk Battlegroup retook 24 settlements and 259 square kilometres of the territory of the Kursk Region in all directions,” he said as quoted by the TASS report. Meanwhile, in a significant development, following the peace talks in Jeddah, Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the US proposal to enact an “immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire”.
TASS
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