Ukrainian troops are still fending off Russian and North Korean forces in Russia's Kursk region but face a potential new attack on Ukraine's northeast Sumy region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Saturday.Military analysts say Russia is close to ejecting Ukrainian forces from their months-old foothold in the western Russian region, seized in a mass cross-border incursion last August. That prompted US President Donald Trump to warn that thousands of Ukrainian troops were ‘completely surrounded.’Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces had retaken two more villages near Sudzha, 10 km from the Ukrainian border, a town which Moscow said it had recaptured on Thursday.Zelenskiy said on social media, after being briefed by his top general, that Kyiv's troops were not encircled in Kursk, but that Moscow was accumulating forces nearby for a separate strike.’This indicates an intention to attack our Sumy region,’ he said. ‘We are aware of this and will counter it.”I would like all (our) partners to understand exactly what Putin is planning, what he is preparing for, and what he will be ignoring.’Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he supported in principle Trump's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine, but would fight on until several crucial conditions were worked out.
