KYIV — Ukraine mentioned on Monday its forces had taken again management of the devastated southeastern village of Rivnopil, the most recent achieve because it started a counteroffensive towards Russian forces.
The village gave the impression to be the ninth recaptured by Ukraine this month although a army spokesperson mentioned Rivnopil was abandoned and closely broken.
“[Ukrainian] Defense forces have brought Rivnopil back under our control,” Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
She didn’t say when Ukrainian troops entered Rivnopil, which lies simply west of a cluster of villages recaptured by Kyiv in offensive operations that Maliar mentioned had liberated 130 sq. km (50 sq. miles) within the south.
A Ukrainian soldier mentioned in an unverified 13-second video posted by Ukraine’s army that the village was retaken on Sunday. The video confirmed him and different troopers in entrance of a devastated constructing with a Ukrainian flag flying from a submit.
Using a derogatory time period for Russian troopers, he mentioned: “The orcs are fleeing, we are moving ahead.”
Valeryi Shershen, spokesperson for the Tavria, or southern, army sector, informed Ukrainian tv there have been no civilians within the village and that it had been virtually completely destroyed. It had additionally been mined on all sides, he mentioned.
Shershen mentioned the Tavria group had superior by 1.5 km, or virtually a mile, within the path of the town of Melitopol within the Zaporizhzhia area.
“There are already liberated territories and our advance continues,” mentioned Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukrainian forces on the Tavria entrance.
Russia, which launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, nonetheless holds swathes of territory within the east and south. It didn’t instantly touch upon occasions in Rivnopil, and Reuters was unable to confirm the state of affairs on the battlefield. — Reuters
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