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Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Ukraine retook 6,000 sq km from Russia in September, says Zelenskyy
Operations at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine have been fully stopped, Energoatom, the state agency in charge of the plant, said on Sunday. Russia on Saturday said it was pulling back troops from the eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine as Kyiv announced massive territorial gains in its lightning counter-offensive. Stay with TOI for latest updates on Russia-Ukraine war:Read Less
Now Ukrainian teams are disarming land mines and other unexploded weapons in the recaptured areas and searching for any remaining Russian troops, officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his forces have liberated more than 6,000 square kilometers (2,300 square miles) in the east and the south since the beginning of September.
Ukrainian forces retook 6,000 sq km from Russia in September: President Zelenskyy
Ukrainian troops expanded their territorial gains Monday, pushing all the way to the country's northeastern border in places, and claimed to have captured a record number of Russian soldiers as part of the lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat.
At least 1,000 people have been killed in the last six months in fighting in the city of Izium but the real figure is probably much higher, an official said, two days after Kyiv's forces recaptured the major supply hub.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Ukrainian forces had recaptured 6,000 square kilometers (2,320 square miles) of territory from Russia this month.
President Vladimir Putin and his senior officials have been largely silent in the face of Russian forces' worst defeat since April, when they were repelled from the outskirts of Kyiv.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday side-stepped a reporter's question of whether Putin still had confidence in the military leadership. "The special military operation continues. And it will continue until the goals that were originally set are achieved," Peskov said. Putin was shown on state TV on Monday chairing a meeting on the economy at which he said Russia was holding up well in the face of Western sanctions.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ukrainian forces have made "significant progress" with Western support.
"What they have done is very methodically planned out and of course it's benefited from significant support from the United States and many other countries in terms of making sure that Ukraine has in its hands the equipment it needs to prosecute this counteroffensive," Blinken said during a news conference in Mexico City.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is calling on the West to speed up deliveries of weapons systems as Ukrainian troops move to consolidate control over a large swath of northeastern territory seized back from Russia.
