According to him, the Ukrainian army is trying to seize the operational initiative from the army of the aggressor country, Russia, and force the occupiers to “play by our rules.”
“For the first time since 2024, when we carried out the Kursk offensive operation, our troops in a month regained control over a larger area of Ukrainian land than the enemy captured in the same time,” he wrote in Telegram.
In the Aleksandrovsk direction of the front (on the border of the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions), air assault troops regained control over 285.6 km² in a month; in total, more than 400 square meters have been liberated from the occupiers since the beginning of the operation. km². There is also progress in other areas, the commander-in-chief indicated.
According to Syrsky, today the forces of the occupiers are almost three times greater than the defense forces. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine through active actions are forcing the Russians to change plans and transfer troops, he added.
