Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has actually dismissed Russian declarations relating to the capture of a town in Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy area.
“Since today, the Russian flag in the town [of Ryzhivka] has actually been damaged, and there are no occupiers present,” Zelensky composed on Telegram on Monday.
The supposed conquest of the town was a Russian propaganda project, he included.
On Sunday night, the head of Russia’s semi-autonomous republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, specified that an unique system had actually taken the border town of Ryzhivka in the Sumy area and caused considerable losses on Ukrainian forces.
Nevertheless, military observers rapidly called into question the claim, although for weeks there has actually been installing speculation about Russian soldiers opening another front in Sumy.
Ukraine has actually been warding off a full-blown Russian intrusion for more than 2 years.