Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Russian statements concerning the seize of a village in Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy area.
“As of this morning, the Russian flag within the village [of Ryzhivka] has been destroyed, and there are not any occupiers current,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram on Monday.
The alleged conquest of the village was a Russian propaganda marketing campaign, he added.
On Sunday night, the pinnacle of Russia’s semi-autonomous republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said {that a} particular unit had seized the border village of Ryzhivka within the Sumy area and inflicted important losses on Ukrainian forces.
Nevertheless, navy observers rapidly solid doubt on the declare, though for weeks there was mounting hypothesis about Russian troops opening one other entrance in Sumy.
Ukraine has been keeping off an all-out Russian invasion for greater than two years.
