Posted in: 05/09/2022 – 13:55
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that his country’s forces have made progress in the counter-offensive launched against Russian forces last week. He said it had succeeded in retaking two villages in the south and another in the east. While Zelensky did not provide details on the timing of these military achievements nor on the exact areas recovered, he announced that he had received “good reports” at Sunday’s meeting from his military commanders and intelligence chief.
announced the president Volodymyr Zelensky Sunday make progress in counterattackWhich began last week, praising his forces for recapturing two villages in the south of the country Ukraine, And a third in its east, along with more lands in the east as well.
He did not specifically mention the location of these areas, nor did he mention the date of their capture, saying only that he had received “good reports” at Sunday’s meeting from his military commanders and the intelligence chief.
Earlier in the day, Kirilo Tymoshenko, deputy director of the president’s office, published a picture of soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over a village he said was located in the southern region, which is the main focus of the counterattack.
“Viskobyla. Kherson region. Ukraine. Today,” Tymoshenko wrote in a Facebook post above a photo of three soldiers on the roofs of houses, one of them holding a Ukrainian flag over one.
In his video night speech, Zelensky thanked his forces for the liberation of a village in the Donetsk region in the east, the capture of high lands in the eastern region also in the direction of Lyschansk-Seversk, and the liberation of two villages in the south.
Kherson region is located to the north of Crimea, which Moscow invaded in February 2014 and annexed the following month. Russian forces had captured the territory at an early stage in the current conflict.
Pro-Russian separatists in the Lugansk region announced their capture of Lyschansk in early July as part of a battle for control of the Donbass region, a coal-mining hub in eastern Ukraine that also includes the city of Seversk.
FRANCE 24 / REUTERS