Ukrainian troops pressing a difficult counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces said Monday that they had had liberated a string of four villages in the eastern Donetsk region.
MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops pressing a difficult counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces said Monday that they have liberated a string of four villages in the eastern Donetsk region.Those gains, if confirmed, would represent modest but politically significant territorial advances as the counterattack, which began in earnest last week, intensifies across Ukraine’s southeast.
The towns are about 80 miles north of the long-occupied city of Mariupol, which was nearly destroyed by heavy Russian bombing last year. “The operation began at about 5 a.m.,” a soldier, identified only by his call sign “Doc,” said in the Storozheve video. “The enemy resisted with its artillery in the beginning. We managed to take the initiative into our own hands and retake the village house by house.”
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed in a statement to have repelled attacks in the area, beginning in Vremivka — the first town along the road south from Velyka Novosilka.
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