Kyiv (dpa-AFX) – According to information from Kyiv, the Ukrainian armed forces have freed the village of Wyssokopillja from the Russian occupation in the Cherson region. The deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, published a photo of the hoisted flag on his Telegram news service blog on Sunday. However, as early as June there were reports of the recapture of this town in the northern part of the region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a military meeting that Ukrainian flags are increasingly returning to the places where they belonged.
“And there is no place for the occupiers in our country,” Zelensky said on Sunday, according to the presidential administration in Kyiv. He did not give details. According to media reports, Ukrainian troops also recaptured the village of Oserne in the Donetsk region on Sunday. This information could not be verified independently.
At the end of August, Ukraine launched a military offensive to liberate the Cherson region from Russian occupation. The region was occupied by Russian troops shortly after the war that began on February 24th. Ukraine had declared that it would use the heavy weapons supplied by the West to take back the areas and stop the Russian advance. The Russian Ministry of Defense had denied Ukrainian successes./mau/DP/zb