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Three new villages recaptured from the Russians in the South
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Wednesday that three new villages had been recaptured by kyiv forces from the Russian army in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine where Moscow troops are struggling.
“Novoskresenské, Novogrygorivka and Petropavlivka in the Kherson region have been liberated in the last 24 hours,” he said in a video posted on social networks, assuring that the Ukrainian counter-offensive “continues”.
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