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Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, stated Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated two towns in southern Ukraine and one in the Donetsk region. Ukraine’s leader stated this in his video address.
“Today, I want to thank the soldiers of the 63rd Battalion of the 103rd Brigade of Territorial Defence Forces, who have made gains in Donetsk Oblast and liberated a town there.
The 54th Brigade also made good gains on the Lysychansk – Siversk front and advanced, occupying certain [new] positions.
I would also like to highlight [the work of] the 42nd Separate Motorised Infantry Battalion. Its heroic actions helped liberate two towns in the south of our country.”
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president’s office, earlier on Sunday posted an image of soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over a village he labeled as being in the southern area that is the main focus of the counter-offensive.
“Vysokopillya. Kherson region. Ukraine. Today,” Tymoshenko wrote in a Facebook post over a photo of three soldiers on rooftops, one of them fixing a Ukrainian flag to a post.
Located just north of the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow invaded and annexed in February and March 2014, the Kherson region was seized by Russian forces early in the current conflict.
Lysychansk was claimed by pro-Russian separatists in the Luhansk region in early July as part of a battle over the coalmining Donbas area in eastern Ukraine, which also includes Siversk.
“Our successes are convincing and soon we will be able to disclose more information,” Ukraine’s southern command spokesperson, Natalia Humeniuk, said.
