According to information from Kiev, the Ukrainian armed forces have liberated the village of Vysokopillya in the Kherson region from Russian occupation, transmits news agency MIA.

The deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, published a photo of the flag being raised on his Telegram blog on Sunday. However, there were already reports in June about the recapture of this locality in the northern part of the region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a military meeting that Ukrainian flags were increasingly returning to those places where they belonged.

“And there is no place for the occupiers in our country,” he said on Sunday, according to the presidential administration in Kiev.

He did not give details. According to media reports, Ukrainian troops had also recaptured the village of Ozerne in the Donetsk region on Sunday.

This information could not be independently verified. At the end of August, Ukraine had started a military offensive to liberate the Kherson region from Russian occupation. Russian troops captured the region shortly after the start of the invasion on February 24.

Ukraine had declared that it would take back the territories and stop the Russian advance with the help of heavy weapons supplied by the West.

The Russian Defence Ministry denies the Ukrainian successes.