Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has been effective and it’s working to block Russian forces from taking more territory in eastern Ukraine, the country’s top military commander told CNN Thursday.
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said the strategy “reduced the threat of an enemy offensive. We prevented them from acting. We moved the fighting to the enemy’s territory so that [the enemy] could feel what we feel every day.”
Ukrainian forces stormed into Russia’s Kursk region last month, in a surprise move that caught Moscow off guard and marked the first time foreign troops had invaded the country since World War II.
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