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Ukraine regains control over settlements near Kherson, military says
Ukraine has regained control over several settlements surrounding Mykolayiv and Kherson in the country’s south, military officials have said.
Due to the successful actions of Ukrainian defenders, Russian forces “lost control over several settlements on the border of Mykolayiv and Kherson regions,” the latest intelligence report from Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces reads.
However, heavy fighting continues in Mariupol where Russian occupiers are focusing their efforts on blocking and trying to destroy Ukrainians units stationed in the Azovstal steel works area, officials added.
With the support of aircraft, the enemy resumed the offensive in order to take control of the plant, the report continued.
Russia is also “provoking tensions” in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, Ukraine claimed
