Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Oct. 27 that Ukrainian forces had recaptured territory and that the country’s front-line positions were now the strongest they have been in a long time since the start of the war with Russia.
He received a briefing that day from Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi, Khartiia Corps Commander Ihor Obolenskyi, and Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Pavlo Palisa on Operation Veles. The 2nd Corps of the National Guard’s Khartiia unit is conducting the underground counteroffensive in the Kupiansk sector of Kharkiv region, Zelenskyy said in a statement on Telegram.
More than 100 Russian soldiers were killed and more than 30 taken prisoner. Ukrainian forces advanced more than 15 kilometers, or just over 9 miles, underground through gas pipelines, Zelenskyy said….