The Russian army continues its assaults in the Kharkiv direction. However, the enemy is being held back in the Vovchansk area, according to a Telegram post by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,

During a visit to soldiers on the border with Russia, the Ukrainian military’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Moscow’s efforts to cut off Ukrainian soldiers holding nearby Russian territory had not succeeded.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed claims that his troops are surrounded by Russian forces in the Russian region of Kursk on Saturday. "There is no encirclement of our troops," Zelensky wrote on the platform X,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that there is no encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region. The situation in the Pokrovsk sector has been stabilized. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,