MOSCOW: Russia mentioned on Saturday (Sep 7) it had seized one other village in jap Ukraine, the place Moscow’s troops are persevering with to advance.
The defence ministry mentioned Russian forces “have liberated the village of Kalynove” within the Donetsk area, which lies round 25km southeast of the important thing logistics hub of Pokrovsk, held by Kyiv’s forces.
Russian troops have been advancing on Pokrovsk for months and Ukraine has ordered the necessary evacuation of youngsters from town.
Moscow has claimed to have captured a string of villages within the space, even because it struggles to combat off a serious Ukrainian counter-attack into its own western Kursk region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned on Thursday that Russia’s “main goal” within the battle was to seize your complete Donbas area – which consists of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk areas.
Moscow claimed to have annexed them, together with the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia areas in 2022, months after it launched its full-scale navy offensive and regardless of not having full management over them.
