Sept 4 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday hailed progress in a counteroffensive in Ukraine that began last week, thanking his forces for seizing two settlements in the south, a third in the east, as well as additional territory in the east. the country. He did not say exactly where the lands were and gave no timetable, except that he had received “good reports” at a meeting on Sunday from his military commanders and the intelligence chief. In his nightly video speech, Zelensky thanked his forces for liberating a settlement in the eastern Donetsk region, capturing “certain heights” also in an eastern region in the Lysychansk-Siversk direction, and liberating two southern settlements. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a news conference amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 23, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of the president’s office, earlier on Sunday posted an image of soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag over a village he described as being in the southern region that is the main focus of the counterattack. “Vysokopillya. Kherson region. Ukraine. Today,” Tymoshenko wrote in a Facebook post above a photo of three soldiers on rooftops, one of whom pinned a Ukrainian flag to a post. Located just north of the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow invaded and annexed in February and March 2014, the Kherson region was seized by Russian forces early in the current conflict. Lysychansk was claimed by pro-Russian separatists in the Luhansk region in early July as part of a battle for the Donbas coal-mining region in eastern Ukraine, which also includes Siversk. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Report by Elaine Monaghan. Edited by Lisa Shumaker and Mark Porter Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
