Ukraine claimed to recapture three villages, which Russia denied.
Ukrainian sources claim that as a result of their counterattacks against Russian forces, they have succeeded in recapturing three villages in Donetsk province, but Russia has completely denied it.
At the same time as the counter-attacks of the Ukrainian army started, which was accompanied by extensive coverage in the Western media, Ukrainian sources claimed to have recaptured three villages from the control of Russian forces in Donetsk province in the southeast of this country.
According to Al Jazeera, in an unconfirmed video released on Sunday by the 68th Yager Brigade, soldiers raised the Ukrainian flag over a bombed building. According to the Ukrainian military, this area is the village of “Blahodatne” in the Donetsk region.
Valery Shershan, a regional spokesman of the Ukrainian army, claimed that the village of Blakhudatne, on the outskirts of Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions, a few kilometers south of the village of Volika Novosilka, is under the control of Kyiv.
Hana Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, also claimed in a statement that the Ukrainian forces recaptured Makaryuka, another village, and advanced between 300 and 1500 meters in two directions on the southern front.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense of Russia emphasized on Sunday that it repelled the Ukrainian attacks in this area. In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Ukraine’s attempts to launch offensive operations in the front-line axes of southern Donetsk and Zaporizhia in the past 24 hours have failed and failed.
