(Kyiv) Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that their military forces had recaptured Klichchiivka, a tactically important town south of the town of Bakhmut on the eastern front.
“I especially want to mention the soldiers who are returning Ukraine its territories, step by step, in the Bakhmut sector,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily video message.
“Klichtchiïvka: well done! “, he added, listing the units that took part in the operation.
“Klichtchiïvka has been cleared of Russians,” Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of the Ukrainian land army, echoed on social networks.
This village of a few hundred inhabitants before the Russian invasion was taken by Russian forces in January.
This announcement comes after the Ukrainian armed forces declared on Friday that they had recaptured another locality, Andriivka, south of Bakhmut. The Russian military said on Sunday that this was not the case.
Ukraine launched a counter-offensive in June to retake territories occupied by Russia, after receiving Western weapons and training new battalions.
Bakhmout, a town of 70,000 inhabitants before the invasion launched by Russia in February 2022, was taken last May by Russian forces after one of the longest and bloodiest battles of this war.
However, Ukrainian forces almost immediately began to regain ground on the northern and southern flanks of this city.