Ukraine claims to have captured another village as highly anticipated counteroffensive underway

As Ukraine's highly anticipated counteroffensive gets underway, defense officials are claiming that forces have taken back a fourth village from Russia.

A day earlier, Ukrainian officials said their troops took three other small villages nearby — Blahodatne, Makarivka and Neskuchne — south of the town of Velyka Novosilka. These gains are still small and difficult to verify.  Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime, political issues, and much more. 

Recent fighting on the western edge of the 600-mile front line has been complicated by a dam breach that sent floodwaters through a part of the Dnieper River separating the two sides.