Russia claims one other village in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk

Russia on Saturday (September 13, 2025) stated it had captured a brand new village in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk area, which Moscow’s forces say they reached initially of July.

The Defence Ministry stated its troops had seized the village of Novomykolaivka close to the border with the Donetsk area — the epicentre of preventing on the entrance.

AFP was unable to substantiate this declare.

DeepState, an internet battlefield map run by Ukrainian navy analysts, stated the village was nonetheless underneath Kyiv’s management.

Russian forces are higher outfitted and vastly outnumber Ukrainian troops. They have been finishing up offensives in Ukraine for months and gaining floor throughout the japanese entrance.

At the top of August, Ukraine had for the primary time acknowledged that Russian troopers had entered the Dnipropetrovsk area, the place Moscow had claimed advances firstly of the month.

The Russian military at present controls a few fifth of Ukrainian territory.

The Kremlin is demanding that Ukraine withdraw from its japanese Donbas area as a precondition for halting hostilities, one thing that Kyiv has rejected.

The Dnipropetrovsk area shouldn’t be one of many 5 Ukrainian areas — Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea — that Moscow has publicly claimed as Russian territory.

On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, needed to “occupy all of Ukraine” and wouldn’t cease till his purpose was achieved, even when Kyiv agreed to cede territory.

For its half, the Kremlin famous on Friday that peace negotiations with Kyiv have been on “pause,” following the failure of a number of makes an attempt in latest months to diplomatically resolve the battle triggered by Russia’s full-scale offensive in February 2022.

A Russian shelling assault in town of Kostyantynivka in Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area killed three individuals earlier Saturday, regional prosecutors stated.