2023-06-11 20:46:36
Ukraine announced the reconquest on Sunday of three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk, the first territorial gains obtained following the “counter-offensive actions” mentioned the day before by President Volodymyr Zelensky. On the Eastern front, “the glorious soldiers of the 68th brigade (…) liberated the locality of Blagodatné”, which had less than 1,000 inhabitants before the war, affirmed the Ukrainian land forces. All accompanied by a video showing soldiers with a Ukrainian flag in a destroyed building.
The Ukrainians said they captured two Russian soldiers and pro-Russian separatist fighters there. Less than three hours later, the Ukrainian border guard service assured that a second village, that of Neskutchne, in the same region of Donetsk, was in turn “again under the Ukrainian flag”. And, in the evening, the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister, Ganna Maliar, announced that a third small town, Makarivka, near Blagodatné, had fallen into the hands of troops from Kiev.
Remaining evasive, President Zelensky had admitted on Saturday that his army was carrying out “counter-offensive actions”, while not wanting to talk about it in detail.
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