Zelenskiy aide posts photo of Ukraine soldiers taking back southern village

(Reuters) – A senior aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday posted a picture of troopers elevating the Ukrainian flag over a village he labeled as being in a southern area Kyiv has been focusing on in a brand new counter-offensive.

“Vysokopillya. Kherson area. Ukraine. Immediately,” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president’s workplace, wrote in a Fb publish over a photograph of three troopers on rooftops, one among them fixing a Ukrainian flag to a publish.

The taking of the village would mark a tangible territorial acquire in a counter-offensive that started final week and is focusing on the south of the nation.

A serious focus of the brand new navy effort is the Kherson area, which was seized by Russian forces early within the present battle. Kherson is simply north of the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow invaded and annexed in February and March 2014.

(Reporting by Elaine Monaghan; Modifying by Mark Porter)