We're kicking a**. Within days, we seized more land than the [Russians] had occupied this year, Dovzhenko told Al Jazeera with a smirk, showing an online map of the Kursk areas seized since August 6 on her smartphone.
On the front line, the morale boost is simply colossal, Mykhailo Zhirokhov, a military analyst based in the northern city of Chernihiv, told Al Jazeera, adding, Which is unexpected to me because people are still fighting in Donbas and theoretically, their lives didn't get any easier.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed on Monday that Kyiv controls 1,250sq km (777sq miles) in Kursk.
Kyiv's success in Kursk, however, does not nullify Moscow's advances in Donbas. Russian forces are just kilometres away from the town of Pokrovsk which sits on a strategic highway and serves as a key military hub.
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