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Russian forces captured 2 much frontline villages successful southeast Ukraine and besides reported the seizure of an land successful confederate Ukraine, its Defence Ministry said connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025).
Ukraine’s subject besides reported occurrence adjacent the municipality of Dobropillia, an country successful the Donetsk region, the bosom of the beforehand line, wherever officials accidental Kyiv’s forces are making headway successful a counter-offensive.
Russian forces person been engaged successful a long, grinding westward beforehand on and adjacent the beforehand enactment successful eastbound Ukraine, announcing the seizure of caller villages connected astir a regular basis. Its troops clasp astir 19% of Ukrainian territory.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces present controlled Pavlivka successful Zaporizhzhia portion successful the southeast, 1 of 4 regions it present claims arsenic Russian territory, and Ivanivka, conscionable wrong Dnipropetrovsk region, wherever they person established a foothold.
The Ministry besides said, successful a connection connected Telegram, that it struck Ukrainian vigor infrastructure successful what it said was a effect to Ukrainian attacks connected Russian civilian targets.
Ukrainian authorities earlier said that six radical had been killed successful Russian strikes overnight.
Reuters could not independently verify battlefield accounts from either side.
Russian quality agencies aboriginal connected Thursday quoted the Defence Ministry arsenic saying paratroops and different servicemen had pushed their mode crossed the Dnipro River to instrumentality power of Karantynnyi Island, adjacent to the metropolis of Kherson successful the south.
Ukraine’s subject past week said Russian forces had unsuccessfully tried to onshore connected the island.
Kherson was occupied by Russian troops successful the aboriginal stages of their February 2022 penetration of Ukraine, but Kyiv’s forces took backmost the metropolis and different parts of Kherson portion aboriginal that year.
Near Dobropillia, successful Donetsk, Ukraine’s 132nd abstracted battalion of airborne forces said it had taken power of the colony of Kucheriv Yar from Russian forces.
