A view shows a building destroyed during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv region, Ukraine August 15, 2023. Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.
On Saturday, Russia rejected Ukraine’s assertion that it had retaken the war-torn eastern village of Andriivka, which is a strategic location on the route to the town of Bakhmut.
“The enemy did not abandon plans to capture the city of Artyomovsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic and continued to conduct assault operations … unsuccessfully trying to oust Russian troops from the population centers of Klishchiivka and Andriivka,” the Russian defense ministry said in its daily briefing.
Andriivka lies south of largely-ruined Bakhmut, a mainly symbolic prize that Russian forces seized in May after the fiercest and longest battle since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Ukrainian General Staff on Friday also reported “partial success” near Klishchiivka, also south of Bakhmut.
