Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces had taken control of 74 settlements in Russia's southern Kursk region and that its major cross-border incursion had advanced 1-3 kilometers over the last 24 hours.

Briefing President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by video link, Oleksandr Syrskyi said Kyiv's military had sezied 40 square kilometers of new territory over the past 24 hours.