Speaking to US broadcaster CNN, Oleksandr Syrskyi said that there had been no Russian advances in a key sector of the eastern front for almost a week.
"Over the last six days, the enemy hasn't advanced a single meter in the Pokrovsk direction," Syrskyi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
"In other words, our strategy is working," he asserted.
"We’ve taken away their ability to maneuver and to deploy their reinforcement forces from other directions … and this weakening has definitely been felt in other areas," Syrskyi said in the interview.
"We note the amount of artillery shelling as well as the intensity of the offensive have decreased,” he told CNN.
Syrskyi outlined the key objectives of Ukraine's operation in Russia's Kursk region, CNN reported. These include stopping Russia from using Kursk as a launchpad for a new offensive, diverting Moscow’s forces from other areas, taking prisoners of war, and boosting the morale of Ukrainian troops, the broadcaster said.
Ukraine launched its surprise push into the Kursk region on August 6 and has since claimed control of at least 1,250 square kilometres of Russian territory, according to the Reuters news agency.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, starting the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II.
Thursday is day 925 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: CNN, Reuters
