Zelenskyy: Kursk operation has become a special stage in the confrontation between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russia

Zelenskyy: Kursk operation has become a special stage in the confrontation between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russia

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a video address, emphasized that the Kursk operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has become "one of the most important pages of the war."

The video was published on the Telegram channel of the head of state.

"All day in Sumy region – with our brigades, heroic guys and girls who are actively defending our land, who carried out our offensive operation in Kursk.

Today is the anniversary of the Kursk operation – a truly Ukrainian historical operation. We have brought the war to the territory of the aggressor state and are still operating on its territory. We have proven – when many talked about a deadlock and were disappointed in Ukraine, we proved that Ukrainians know how to act correctly. And we proved that many Russian threats were a bluff.

I want to thank all our warriors today: every soldier, sergeant, officer – all participants in the Kursk operation. One thousand three hundred kilometers of Russian territory were under our control. And this forced the Russians not only to withdraw their forces from Donetsk region but also to ask for help from North Korea. We disrupted the Russian plan to launch an attack on Sumy and Kharkiv. Our guys captured over a thousand Russian soldiers in Kursk, and this also allowed us to unblock complex exchanges. One of the most important pages of the war," Zelenskyy emphasized.