Around a month after Ukraine launched an offensive against Russian forces in the Kherson area, it is reported that several villages are in the process of being recaptured. On Sunday evening, there are several unconfirmed reports of Ukrainian progress in Kherson, which is the only regional capital Russian forces have succeeded in capturing in Ukraine. Adviser and former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, has published a photo on his Telegram account of soldiers displaying a Ukrainian flag in the village of Khreshchenivka. Gerashenko also writes that he is waiting for an official confirmation from the Ukrainian General Staff. The village is located approximately 127 kilometers northeast of the center of the city of Kherson, and is said to have been under Russian control until now. A destroyed Russian tank outside the village of Vysokopillya in the Kherson region on September 27. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV / AFP According to the Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Independent, a video on social media shows Ukrainian soldiers standing next to local residents in Zolota Balka, a village in the north of the Kherson region. The Kyiv Post also reports that Ukrainian forces have captured Zolota Balka, as well as the village of Dudchany in the same region. There has been no official confirmation that Ukraine has recaptured the areas. Several Russian groups on the social media Telegram discuss the progress, and refer to messages from Russian soldiers. Ukrainian offensive in the region At the end of August, Ukraine launched an offensive against Russian forces in the Kherson area. Ukraine has been reticent to release information about the offensive. Kherson was the first to be taken by Russian forces after the invasion in February. The city is located just north of the Crimean peninsula, in the south of the country and by the river Dnieper, which divides the country in two. Kherson is therefore considered strategically important. Valentyna Zgonyk-Safonova (50) looks at her destroyed home in the village of Vysokopillya in the Kherson region on September 27. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV / AFP Kherson is one of four areas Russia forcibly incorporated into the Russian Federation on Friday this week. The other areas are Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya. It corresponds to around 15 percent of Ukraine’s territory. Russia has occupied large parts, but not the entire area that they now claim will be part of Russia. The annexation of the Ukrainian territories is strongly criticized and condemned by democracies worldwide. Ukrainian flag at a crossroads in the recently liberated village of Vysokopillya in Kherson. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV / AFP Victory in Lyman On Saturday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj declared that the strategically important town of Lyman in Donetsk is fully under Ukrainian control. On Saturday evening, Ukrainian soldiers proudly posed in front of the town hall. The Russian flag, which had been up since the city fell at the end of May, had been thrown to the ground. Photo: INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND AEI’S CRITICAL THREATS PROJECT/news (Updated 02/10/2022) Photo: INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND AEI’S CRITICAL THREATS PROJECT/news (Updated 02/10/2022) The Ukrainian government forces shocked Russia with their lightning offensive in the Kharkiv region at the beginning of September. In a few days they took back large areas while the Russian front line collapsed. Follow the development in news’s News Centre:
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