Ukraine Says Recaptured Territory In East, As Annexation Polls Open
NDTV
"The Ukrainian army has retaken the village of Yatskivka in the Donetsk region," a senior army official told reporters, adding that Kyiv's forces had "also regained controlled over positions to the south of Bakhmut," also in Donetsk,
Kyiv said Friday its forces had recaptured a village in the eastern Donetsk region and territory around another war-scarred town there, as Moscow-proxies held votes on annexation by Russia.
"The Ukrainian army has retaken the village of Yatskivka in Donetsk region," Oleksiy Gromov, a senior army official, told reporters.
Kyiv's forces had "regained control over positions to the south of Bakhmut", Gromov added.
Yatskivka sits on the eastern bank of the strategic Oskil river, which Kyiv's forces crossed after recapturing swathes of territory in neighbouring Kharkiv region.
