Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the number of settlements liberated from Russia since the beginning of the war on February 24.

APA reports that the head of state spoke about this in a traditional evening video address.

According to the leader of Ukraine, after February 24, the territories of 10 provinces were damaged by hostilities:

"During this period, 1,027 cities and towns were liberated, while 2,610 are still under Russian occupation.

Most of them are in need of rehabilitation, hundreds of settlements were completely destroyed by the Russian army and practically need to be rebuilt.

But apart from that, dozens of cities in other provinces are receiving rocket attacks.

Hundreds of enterprises were destroyed.

Among them are complex, dangerous productions.

This applies to chemistry and metallurgy," said Zelensky.

He said that fierce battles continue along the entire front.