Writing in Telegram, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said that an attack was launched near a group of villages around the town of Bakhmut, which was taken last month by Russia’s Wagner mercenaries after months of fighting.
“We’ve made progress in all these areas,” Maliar wrote.
Tavria, or southern front commander Oleksandr Tarnavskiy, said Ukrainian forces liberated an area near Krasnohorivka, west of the Russian-controlled Donetsk regional centre.
He explained that the region has been under Russian control since separatist forces backed by Moscow took control in 2014.