The village of Wyssokopillja was one of the first to be occupied by the Russian army after the invasion of Ukraine - according to Ukrainian information, the country's flag is now flying there again. The Ukrainian army is also said to have recaptured a small town in Donetsk.
According to information from Kyiv, the Ukrainian armed forces have liberated the village of Vysokopillya from the Russian occupation in the Kherson region. The deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, published a photo of the hoisted flag in his blog on Telegram.
However, as early as June there were reports of the recapture of this town in the northern part of the region. Vysokopillja is a small town with 4200 inhabitants in the north of Cherson. Until 1915 the place was called Kronau, because mainly Black Sea Germans lived there.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a military meeting that Ukrainian flags are increasingly returning to the places where they belonged. "And there is no place for the occupiers in our country," said Zelenskyj, according to the presidential administration in Kyiv. He did not give details. According to media reports, Ukrainian troops also recaptured the village of Oserne in the Donetsk region on Sunday. This information cannot be verified independently.
At the end of August, Ukraine launched a military counter-offensive to liberate the Cherson region from Russian occupation. The region was occupied by Russian troops shortly after the war that began on February 24th.
Ukraine had declared that it would use the heavy weapons supplied by the West to take back the areas and stop the Russian advance. The Russian Ministry of Defense had denied Ukrainian successes.
