Putin says Russian forces improved positions in Ukraine


MOSCOW, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Russian forces are conducting an ‘energetic defence’ and have been capable of enhance their positions at nearly whole line of contact in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin mentioned on Sunday.

“What is occurring now alongside your entire size of the [line of] contact is named ‘an energetic defence’,” Putin mentioned in video remarks posted to social media by a Kremlin journalist Pavel Zarubin.

“And our troops are enhancing their place at nearly whole space. Fairly a big space.” (Writing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; enhancing by Man Faulconbridge)