The Russian army announced on Saturday the release of two other locations in Kursk, where he has launched a great offensive to expel Ukrainian troops entrenched in that Russian region. For his part, the Ukrainian pre -based Volodimir Zelenski has manifested on social networks this Saturday that the Ukrainian forces “continue to fight” in the region and are not being besieged.
According to the military part, it is the localities of Zaleshenka, of about 2,600 inhabitants before kyiv’s military operation in that area, and which is located 7.5 kilometers from the Ukrainian border already 1.5 kilometers from Sudzha, The main Ukrainian resistance center that was reconquered by the Russians on Thursday.
The other town reconquered in the last 24 hours in the framework of the Russian counteroffensive is Rubanshina, 4.5 kilometers from Sudzha, according to the source.
Both were released by units of the Séver Military Group (North), said the statement of the Ministry of Defense.
According to the Russian military, the enemy lost more than 220 soldiers in Kursk throughout the last day.
The Ukrainian army officially confirmed on Saturday that he has retreated from the Russian city of Sudzha, whose reconquest Moscow announced Thursday.
On a map published today by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the area under Ukrainian control in Kursk has retracted towards the border.
Putin visit
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Kursk was traveling on Wednesday for the first time, where ordered crushing Ukrainian “terrorists” in Kursk, where Russia would have recovered 86 % of the territory occupied by the enemy.
“I trust that all the missions that have ahead our combat units are completed unconditionally and that the territory of the Kursk region is completely released from the enemy in the near future,” Putin said, dressed as a military, when visiting the command post of the Russian troops in Kursk.
Putin supported the idea of the truce in Ukraine proposed by the US and already accepted by kyiv, But he raised issues such as the future of Ukrainian soldiers who still fight in Kursk.
This Friday, after an appeal of the American leader, Donald Trump, to save the life of the Ukrainian forces in Kursk, Putin said that life and decent treatment will be guaranteed if they depose arms.
At the same time, today the Kremlin warned that the time to accept that proposal was ending.
