Ukraine announced on Wednesday that the Russian forces advanced in the east of the country and took control of several villages, as part of the operation carried out by Moscow to control the Donbass region.
This as the Defense Ministry stated that the Russian forces drove the Ukrainian army out of Velika Komishovakha and Zavody in the Kharkiv region and took control of Zarechny and Novotoshkivsk in the Donetsk region.