Ukrainian President Zelenskiy announced on September 4 that the counterattack launched by the Ukrainian army last week was a success. He thanked the troops for recovering 2 villages in the south and 1 village in the east, and retaking other territory in the east.
Reuters reported that Zelensky did not specify exactly which territory he had regained, nor did he disclose the time. He only said that he heard "good news" during a meeting with military commanders and intelligence chiefs that day.
In his regular video speech every night, Zelensky thanked the troops for regaining a village in the eastern Donetsk region and "part of the highlands" in the eastern Lysychansk-Siversk (Lysychansk-Siversk) region, and Take back 2 villages in the south.
Deputy Chief of the Presidential Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko posted a photo earlier in the day of soldiers raising the flag in a village and marked it as being in the southern part of the key counterattack area.
In the photo posted by Timoshenko on Facebook, three soldiers stood on the roof, and one of them inserted the Ukrainian flag into the flagpole. The caption read: "Vysoko pillya), Kherson region, Ukraine , today. "
Kherson is located in the north of the Crimean Peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014. It was captured by the Russian army at the beginning of the war. Lisichansk was captured by the Luhansk (Luhansk) pro-Russian militia in early July as part of the Russian army's war to seize the Donbass coal mining area in eastern Ukraine.
