Kyiv Challenges Russian Claims of Major Advances Along Donetsk Frontline

Russia has announced the capture of a second village in the eastern Donetsk region—in as many days—but officials in Kyiv insist that the fighting continues. “We are not going to move anywhere but forward,” Yevhen Shmataliuk, commander of a Ukrainian assault brigade, said in an April 22 interview. Earlier on the same day, Russia’s defense ministry claimed its forces had established full control over the Donetsk village of Novomykhailivka “and improved the tactical situation along the frontline.” “Southern Battlegroup units fully liberated Novomykhailivka in the [Moscow-recognized] Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) … as a result of successful operations,” the ministry said in a statement....