Russian Forces Capture Ukrainian Villages

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Russian forces announced they captured the village of Saapich in Ukraine's northern

Sumy region and Kaliniki in the eastern Donetsk region.

This came from the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday, March 17.

These gains follow conflicting reports from Moscow and Kiev about advances along the

roughly 1,250 km front line in the four-year.

Saapich says, right on the border with Russia, where troops have pushed for months to build a presence.

Ukraine's president Valatomir Zelensky said, Monday his forces disrupted a major Russian offensive,

noting attacks fell short of what Moscow planned.

Ukrainian media also reported Russians took 19 residents from Kaliniki across the border.

Top Russian general Valerie Jarasimov stated his troops are creating buffer zones

in Sumy and Karkiv regions while advancing toward the city of Sloviansk, East of Kaliniki.

Meanwhile, Russian air defenses down 35 Ukrainian drones that afternoon,

mostly over the Krasnodar area near Ukraine's border.

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