Kyiv reinforces its troops involved in the fight in the Russian region of Kursk, where Moscow's forces returned the land, said the Ukrainian Commander -in -Chief of Oleksandr Siri on Monday. This step was ahead of negotiations between Ukrainians and US officials in Saudi Arabia when President Trump is committed to rapid ceasefire for three years War has started Russia.
Ukrainian soldiers launched their brazen Offensive in the Russian region of Kursk In August, having even caught their Western allies on guard and struck the Kremlin. Ukraine hoped that control over the Russian territory would give it leverage during future talks with Moscow. However, Ukraine has recently lost its position: last month they lost two -thirds of the territory they once controlled in Kursk.
“I decided to strengthen our group with the necessary forces and means, including the electronic war and unmanned components,” Siri wrote in a social media report on Monday.
Moscow claims that in recent days it has returned control over a number of villages, including accelerated promotion. He also claimed that he had seized the village in the Sumy Ukraine region in Novoke, which is near the vital route for the Ukrainian forces still in Kursk.
These successes came on the wave of president Trump's decision to stop US military assistance and intelligence information with Ukraine is a decision that the White House defended as a tough but necessary for the pressure of President Volodzimir Zelensky to make a truce along vague lines that Mr Trump provides.
On Monday, Siri claimed that the dynamics of the fight between Kursk and Sumi were under the control of the Ukrainian defense forces. “
He also addressed the problems that are spreading in the Ukrainian media that Ukrainian troops could be surrounded by Russian fighters there, saying: “There is currently no threat to surround our units in the Kursk region.”
However, he acknowledged that the Ukrainian troops were driven under Russian pressure and had to return to positions that are easier to hold.
“The units take timely measures to the favorable defense lines,” he said.
He contributed to this report.