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According to the Defense Ministry, Russian forces have taken control of two settlements in eastern Ukraine.


Russia's Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that Russian forces had captured two additional communities along the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.

On Friday, the ministry reported that it had taken three villages as part of its gradual advance throughout the area.
The military of Ukraine denied that any of the villages had been taken over. However, it claimed that its troops had retaken a settlement farther west on the outskirts of the Dnipropetrovsk region from Russian forces.
Neither side's battlefield reports could be independently verified by Reuters.
Moscow's forces have concentrated on capturing the eastern Donbas region, which is composed of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, since an abortive attempt to advance on the capital Kyiv in the first few weeks of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

According to the Russian announcement, the final two villages to be taken are Seredne, which is nearer the administrative border of the northeastern Kharkiv region, and Kleban-Byk, which is northwest of the town of Toretsk, which has been under attack for months.
Katerynivka and Rusyn Yar, two of the villages reported as taken on Friday, are close to Kostiantynivka, another beleaguered city.
The General Staff of Ukraine's military said Katerynivka was only one of several localities that came under enemy attack.
A separate military statement said Ukrainian forces had retaken the village of Zelenyi Hai—adjacent to the Dnipropetrovsk region, where Moscow says its forces have made inroads.
The statement said the village was being subjected to new Russian attacks.
Ukraine's HUR military spy agency said it had conducted a joint operation with military units to halt advances in the Donetsk region as well as attempts to break through into the Dnipropetrovsk region.

SOURCES: NEWS AGENCIES

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