He said this on the air of the "Espresso" TV channel.
"The front line is stable, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting the defense. Russian enemy is not conducting operational offensives and is suffering losses in the directions where he tried to improve his position. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding Mykolaiv and the region. We need to destroy the enemy and endanger the presence of the Russians on the right bank of the Dnieper so that they don’t even think about an offensive," Kostenko emphasized.