Ukrainian authorities announced this Sunday (17) that their forces retook the village of Klishchiivka, south of the city of Bakhmut.
Victories in Kiev’s counteroffensive are of great importance to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to make his second wartime visit to Washington next week to try to rally support.
“Klishchiivka has been cleared of Russians,” the commander of the Ukrainian Army’s ground forces, Oleksander Syrskyi, announced on social media. Zelensky praised the soldiers fighting the Russians near Bakhmut and highlighted those who retook Klishchiivka.
Klishchiivka, where hundreds of people lived before Moscow’s offensive, had been captured by Russian troops in January. The spokesman for Ukrainian troops in the east, Ilya Yevlakh, said the capture of Klishchiivka could help the Kiev Army encircle Bakhmut.
Ukraine began a counteroffensive in the south and east of the country in June after accumulating Western weapons and recruiting battalions. Bakhmut, a city that had around 70,000 inhabitants before the war, was captured by Russian forces in May after one of the longest and bloodiest battles since the Russian invasion.
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