Zelensky claims Russia’s advance on Sumy has failed

After several months of ferocious fighting, Ukraine says that it stopped a Russian lead in northeast of Ukraine.

“To date, we can say that the Russian offensive operation in (the Sumy region) has been completely thwarted by our forces,” wrote President Volodymyr Zelenskyi in an article on Telegram after consultation with army management, including the commander of the chief army Olexander Syrskyi.

The fighting in border areas continued, but the Russian group was no longer able to attack, said Zelensky.

In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again declared that the Russian army had to conquer a buffer zone of approximately 10 kilometers in the Ukrainian border region of Sumy.

This was intended to prevent Ukrainian advances, especially in the Russian Western region of Kursk, as was the case last year.

According to Ukrainian military observers, Russian troops continue to control more than 200 square kilometers in the Sumy region.

Ukraine defends himself against a Russian invasion for more than three and a half years with Western aid.

Including the Crimean Black Sea Peninsula, which was annexed in 2014, almost a fifth of the territory of Ukraine is now under Russian control.