Ukraine’s top military commander says its army is still defending a small area of ​​the area inside Russia which was caught about a year ago.

In August 2024, Ukraine launched a stunning avatar in the Kursk region, occupying more than 1,000 sq km (386 sq mi) Russian land.

Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Olecasandra Sirski said that 10,000 Russian soldiers are trying to run their army back.

While Russia repeatedly stressed that it had removed the entire area, Sirski said on Sunday that Ukraine is still holding about 90 sq km (56 square mi) in the kursk area.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Sirski vowed to increase the “scale and depth” of attacks on Russia.

“Of course, we will continue,” he said.

“Given that we are not fighting against the population, we are purely fighting military goals and destroying.”

Immediately after starting on 6 August 2024, Ukraine seized dozens of villages in the Kursk region.

President Volodimier Zelansky said the Kursk Operation established a buffer zone, which stopped the Russian forces from being deployed in the major areas of the front in Eastern Ukraine.

However, after reinforcement in the area of ​​Russia, Kiev’s progress stopped – its colleague including thousands of soldiers from North Korea.

in recent months Ukrainian forces have retreated in Kursk after facing 70,000 Russian soldiers. And heavy drone attacks as part of Moscow’s drive to regain the area.

Last Autumn, North Korea sent an estimated 11,000 soldiers to Kursk to fight across the Ukrainian border.

Western officials told the BBC in January that at least 1,000 North Korean soldiers were killed in just three months in Russia.

Earlier this month, the government in Pyongyang promised to send thousands of Khan-Mashdhan soldiers and builders in Russia’s Kursk region to restore the damaged infrastructure.