Ukraine reports 'particularly fruitful' few days in counteroffensive

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises following the explosion of a Russian tank after it was targetted by Ukrainian forces in Northwest Bakhmut, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, in this screengrab taken from a handout video released on June 30, 2023. SIRKO TEAM - 225TH BATTALION OF UKRAINE'S 127TH TERRITORIAL DEFENCE BRIGADE/Handout via REUTERS

KYIV (Reuters) -A Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces has been "particularly fruitful" in the past few days and Ukraine's troops are fulfilling their main tasks, a senior security official said on Tuesday.

The comments by Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, were Kyiv's latest positive assessment of the month-old counterattack although Moscow has not acknowledged Ukraine's gains.