Russia Ukraine Struggle Replace: Russia captured the village of Tonenke (File)
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Moscow mentioned Thursday that it had captured one other village in east Ukraine, round 10 kilometres (six miles) from town of Avdiivka, which fell to Russian forces final month.
It was the second village west of Avdiivka that Moscow claimed to have seized this week, with Russia seeing some current successes on the battlefield as Kyiv suffers from a scarcity of ammunition.
“The Russian armed forces liberated the village of Tonenke,” Russia’s defence ministry mentioned in its each day briefing, naming a small village alongside a river with a number of streets.
Russia seized Avdiivka final month after one of many bloodiest battles within the two-year battle, which Moscow touted as a turning level.
The declare got here as Russia launched a large-scale missile assault on Kyiv early Thursday, with Ukraine saying Moscow had despatched greater than 30 missiles on its capital.
Russia’s defence ministry mentioned it had used “high-precision weapons” together with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles on “command centres” of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The assault got here after President Vladimir Putin vowed that Moscow would reply to an escalation in Ukrainian assaults on Russia’s border areas.
The defence ministry mentioned Russian models “proceed to hold out measures to stop the penetration of sabotage and reconnaissance teams” into the border area of Belgorod.
Russia’s border areas have been hit by elevated Ukrainian shelling in current days in addition to incursions by anti-Kremlin fighters on Kyiv’s aspect.
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