Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi also claims 100 settlements have been seized as forces try to repel Russian counterattack

Ukraine has captured 594 Russian soldiers during its three-week military operation in the Kursk region and has seized 100 settlements inside Russia, Kyiv’s commander-in-chief said on Tuesday.

Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi said Moscow had redeployed 30,000 troops to the border region and they were trying to counterattack and to encircle Ukrainian forces but these attempts were being repelled.

Speaking at a conference in Kyiv, Syrskyi acknowledged that one of the objectives of the Kursk incursion was to divert Russian combat units away from the east of Ukraine.

In recent months Russian forces have been advancing. They are now about 7 miles (11km) from Pokrovsk, a key Ukrainian army and transport hub, and are pressing on the town of Kurakhove.

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