Russian troops have captured the village of Lysivka, located near the town of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said, quoted by Reuters, BTA reports.
The agency notes that it cannot independently confirm the information from the battlefield.
„As a result of the decisive actions of units of the „Center“ "The settlement of Lysivka in the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, quoted by TASS.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, General Oleksandr Syrsky, said today that the Ukrainian armed forces had managed to stabilize the front around Pokrovsk, which has been under Russian attacks for months.
"We managed to stabilize the situation in this operational zone... and in some places we regained the tactical initiative," General Syrsky wrote on the social network "Telegram."
Pokrovsk is an important logistics center in the Donetsk region. Although surrounded by Russian forces on three sides, it still remains under Ukrainian control, despite months of intense Russian attacks. If Russia manages to capture or surround Pokrovsk, it will achieve its goal of seizing all of Donetsk Oblast, which it does not yet control, Reuters notes.
Meanwhile, the governor of western Russia's Kursk Oblast, Alexander Khinshtein, said Ukrainian forces had shelled civilian targets in an attack on the area, killing three people and wounding seven.