Ukraine’s top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi has said that Kyiv’s forces control 1,000 sq km of Russian territory.
Syrskyi said that Ukraine continues to “conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region” seven days after it began.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia has brought war to others and now it is coming back to Russia.
However Russian leader Vladimir Putin describes the offensive as a “major provocation” and ordered Russian forces to “to kick the enemy out of their territory”.