Ukraine says it controls 100 Russian settlements after three-week incursion

 

• Ukraine says it now controls 100 Russian settlements and 1,294 square kilometres of Russian territory (500 square miles)

• The incursion into the Kursk region began three weeks ago - last week, President Zelensky said Ukraine controlled more than 1,250 sq km of Russian territory

• Ukraine's commander in chief Oleksandr Syrskyi also says Ukraine has captured 594 Russian soldiers

• Earlier, Russia launched another wave of strikes on Ukraine, with four people killed, a day after one of its biggest air attacks of the war

• Zelensky says Kyiv will "undoubtedly respond to Russia for this and all other attacks"