{"id":28327,"date":"2022-03-27T06:56:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T06:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=28327"},"modified":"2022-03-27T06:56:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T06:56:23","slug":"ukraine-says-its-forces-recaptured-town-near-russia-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2022\/28327\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine says its forces recaptured town near Russia border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine (National Times)- Ukraine said Saturday its forces had recaptured the north east town of Trostianets, near the Russian border, one of the first towns to fall under Moscow\u2019s control in its month-long invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city of Trostianets in the Sumy region has been liberated from Russian occupation troops,\u201d the Ukrainian defence ministry announced on social media citing the 93rd Brigade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian army fled Trostianets leaving behind weapons, equipment and ammunition,\u201d the defence ministry statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It published images showing Ukrainian soldiers and civilians among heavily damaged buildings, and what appeared to be abandoned Russian military equipment along with a sign post to the town.<\/p>\n<p>Trostianets, with a pre-war population of around 20,000 people is located between the larger settlements of Sumy and Kharkiv in east Ukraine, which have been under intensive Russian attacks since the invasion began on February 24.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow\u2019s assault on its pro-democracy neighbour has largely stalled with no major advances and Ukrainian forces even able to counterattack in places.<\/p>\n<p>The recapture of Trostianets would be among the Ukrainian army\u2019s most significant announcements of gains since they began counterattacking in several regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine (National Times)- Ukraine said Saturday its forces had recaptured the north east town of Trostianets, near the Russian border, one of the first towns to fall under Moscow\u2019s control in its month-long invasion. \u201cThe city of Trostianets in the Sumy region has been liberated from Russian occupation troops,\u201d the Ukrainian defence ministry announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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