Russia’s war in Ukraine
Ukraine claims to have retaken a village near the key battlefield of Bakhmut as fierce fighting continues in the area.
The village of Andriivka — about 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of the Russia-occupied town of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region — is the latest gain for Kyiv in a counteroffensive that has seen slow but steady gains by Ukrainian forces.
The announcement of reclaiming Andriivka came early Friday from the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces.
Earlier, Britain’s most senior military officer said Ukraine had taken the initiative in uts war against Vladimir Putin and is pushing Russia back.
Speaking at an arms fair in London, Sir Tony Radakin hit back at the idea Kyiv’s counteroffensive was struggling.
“In the north they are holding and fixing Russian forces there and in the south they are making progress between 10 and 20km,” the Guardian reported him saying.
His comments came as Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky hailed in his nightly address Ukraine’s destruction of a Russian air defence system in the annexed Crimea peninsula.
