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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Rebecca Whittaker,Bryony Gooch and Shweta Sharma

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s ‘buffer zone’ strategy in tatters after Kyiv reclaims swathes of territory

Ukraine claims to have taken back almost all of its territory in a key region that Vladimir Putin wanted to turn into a “buffer zone”.

Senior general Oleksandr Komarenko told reporters that Ukrainian troops now controlled almost all of the Dnipropetrovsk region after liberating 400 square kilometres in counterattacks.

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