Kursk operation prevented Russians from seizing Sumy and Kharkiv regions, - Zelenskyy
The Kursk operation was necessary. It made it possible to disrupt Russian plans to occupy new Ukrainian cities.
According to Censor.NET, this was stated by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with Reuters.
"This is one of the steps that was preventive: to prevent the Russians from capturing Sumy, the North, capturing Kharkiv, the East. And it was there, in this region, that our military took preventive actions: they launched the Kursk offensive. Their task was to disrupt the occupation of our cities. And our brigades made successful steps. They did everything beautifully. It was very dangerous," the president said.
He added that Ukraine's leadership understood that Putin would be back. What he failed to do with Kyiv in 2022, he would want to come back and try to implement, the president said, recalling Russian offensives in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
"And he wanted to make a big breakthrough again and capture at least 2 regions with more than a million people in each," Zelenskyy added.
He also emphasized that thanks to this operation, Russia moved a lot of troops from the east and south of Ukraine due to pressure from Ukrainian troops.
At the same time, Zelenskyy noted that the results of the Kursk operation could be fully assessed only later.
"Everything that the Kursk operation did, we will be able to appreciate only after analysis, probably after the end of the war, analyzing certain military, political, military-political steps," Zelenskyy said.
As a reminder, Zelenskyy confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched a new offensive in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. Before the new offensive of Ukrainian troops in Kursk, the Defense Forces struck the enemy's command post in Kursk, eliminating a significant number of officers.
