After a long battles of many months, the Kyiv He claims that the Ukrainian army stopped promoting Russian forces in the region Summy of northeast Ukraine.

“Today, we can say that the Russian offensive operation (in the Sumi region) was completely rejected by our strengths,” Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski said in a post on the Telegram platform after consultation with the leadership of the Ukrainian armed forces. The hostilities in border areas continue, but the Russian troops are no longer able to continue their attack, Zelenski said.

In June, the Russian President Vladimir Putin He had declared that Russian troops had to create a seat belt of about 10 kilometers in the Ukrainian region of Sumi in order to prevent a possible cross -border attack similar to last year’s Kursk.

According to Ukrainian military analysts, the Russian Armed Forces continue to control an area of ​​about 200 square kilometers in the Sumi region. Three and a half years after the start of the Russian invasion, the Moscow troops have occupied almost one fifth of Ukrainian territory.