Ukrainian forces have stopped Russian troops advancing in the northeastern Sumy region and are actually battling to regain management alongside the border with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned.
In remarks launched for publication by his workplace on Saturday (June 14, 2025), Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned that Moscow has amassed about 53,000 troops in the route of Sumy.
“We are levelling the position. The fighting there is along the border. You should understand that the enemy has been stopped there. And the maximum depth at which the fighting takes place is 7 km (4.35 miles) from the border,” Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned.
Reuters couldn’t confirm the battlefield reviews.
Russia’s troops have been focusing their assaults on the jap Donetsk region. But because the begin of the month, they’ve intensified their assaults in the north-east, asserting plans to create a so-called ‘buffer zone’ in the Sumy and Kharkiv areas.
The Russian battle in Ukraine is in its fourth yr, nevertheless it has intensified in latest weeks.
Ukraine performed an audacious drone assault this month that took out a number of plane inside Russia and likewise hit the bridge connecting Russia to the annexed Crimean Peninsula utilizing underwater explosives.
Moscow ramped up its air assaults after the assault.
Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned that Ukrainian troops had maintained their defensive strains alongside greater than 1,000 km of the frontline. He additionally dismissed Moscow’s claims that Russian troops had crossed the executive border into the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk.
Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned that Russia was sending small assault teams “to get one foot on the administrative border” and take an image or a video, however these assaults had been repelled.
Dnipropetrovsk borders three areas which are partially occupied by Russia – Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Russia now controls about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory.
Mr. Zelenskyy acknowledged that Ukraine was unable to regain all of its territory by army pressure and reiterated his pleas for stronger sanctions on Russia to pressure Moscow into negotiations to finish the battle.
Two rounds of peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow in Istanbul produced few outcomes that would result in a ceasefire and a broader peace deal. The two sides agreed solely to alternate prisoners of battle.
Several swaps have already been performed this month, and Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned he anticipated them to proceed till June 20 or 21.
In separate remarks made on communications platform Telegram on Saturday (June 14, 2025), he mentioned {that a} new group of Ukrainian prisoners of battle had come residence as a part of one other swap with Russia.
“We continue to take our people out of Russian captivity. This is the fourth exchange in a week,” Mr. Zelenskyy wrote on his private account.
Ukrainian officers answerable for exchanging prisoners mentioned the overwhelming majority of the troopers launched in the alternate had been held captive since 2022 with many captured throughout the defence of Mariupol.
The officers mentioned Kyiv had, in the meantime, obtained the our bodies of 1,200 of its troopers killed in the battle with Russia. The our bodies had been handed over to Ukraine on Friday (June 13, 2025).
“The agreement is that the exchanges will be completed, and the sides will discuss the next step,” Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned.
Published – June 15, 2025 12:11 am IST
