Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army: Russia's 1000 sq. km. we won the area

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, Alexander Sirskyi, for the first time commented on the operation of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk region. "Currently, 1000 square meters of the Russian Federation km. is under our control," he said.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced on the Telegram channel an excerpt from the report made by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Sirsky, through video communication.

"Currently, 1000 square meters of the Russian Federation km. area under our control," said Sirsky.

"We see how Russia behaves under Putin: the Kursk disaster 24 years ago - the symbolic beginning of his rule, and we see how it all ends," Zelensky said, referring to the Kursk nuclear submarine that sank 24 years ago.

The president of Ukraine noted that "the war that Russia brought to others is now returning to its homeland." According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have taken control of the areas of the Kursk region where Sumi was fired. "Today and since June 1, it has carried out almost 2,100 attacks on the territory of the Sumy region, so our operations are only a matter of security for Ukraine, the liberation of the border area from the Russian military," Zelensky said.

In turn, the analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Alexander Sirskyi's Ukrainian army 1000 sq. km. They doubted the correctness of his statement that he controls the territory of Russia.

"ISW has seen reports that Ukrainian forces have advanced approximately 800 square kilometers, but ISW does not believe that Ukrainian forces control all areas of Ukraine's maximum advance," the summary said.

Earlier, acting governor of Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops entered on Monday, Alexey Smirnov, Ukrainian Armed Forces 480 sq. km. meter area and 28 residential addresses in the area. According to his information, Ukrainian troops occupied 12 km inland and 40 km wide territories.

Ukraine's DeepState project wrote that 44 Russian addresses are under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.