The Ukrainian military on Tuesday rejected the Russian Defense Minister’s statement that Moscow’s forces had gained full control over the village of Krynky, located on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the south of the Kherson region, Reuters reports.

The statement of the Southern District of the Ukrainian military in Telegram states that Russian troops have not advanced on the eastern bank, and the statement of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is a “falsification of facts.”

Earlier, Minister Shoigu stated that the Russian troops managed to eliminate the bridgehead created by the Ukrainian army last October on the left bank of the Dnieper in the village of Krynky, Kherson region, on the southern front of Ukraine.

At the end of 2022, Russian troops left the western bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, but remained in the areas on the eastern bank.

In November last year, Ukrainian troops captured some areas on the eastern bank.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces would continue their offensive to advance deep into Ukraine after capturing the city of Avdiyivka, a heavily fortified stronghold of the Ukrainian army, where the latter, the Kremlin leader said, had “chaotically retired,” Reuters and EFE reported. .

In a conversation with his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, broadcast by Russian media, Putin claimed that Ukraine’s new army chief, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, ordered his troops out of Avdiivka only after they began “running away”. in disarray,” leaving the wounded soldiers who are now in captivity, the head of the Kremlin assured that Russia would treat them “strictly in accordance with international conventions (…), in dignified conditions.”

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