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Posted on June 30, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Russian forces have captured a village in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, intensifying the conflict as peace talks continue.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces have taken control of the first village in the east-central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, Russian state media and war bloggers said on Monday, after Russia took 950 square kms of territory in two months.
There was no immediate confirmation from Ukrainian sources or from the Russian Defence Ministry.
As Moscow and Kyiv talk of possible peace, the war has intensified with Russian forces carving out a 200 square kilometre (77.22 square miles) chunk of Ukraine's Sumy region and entering the Dnipropetrovsk region last month.
The authoritative Ukrainian Deep State map shows that Russia now controls 113,588 square kms of Ukrainian territory, up 943 square km over the two months to June 28.
Russia's state RIA news agency quoted a pro-Russian official, Vladimir Rogov, as saying that Russian forces had taken control of the village of Dachnoye just inside the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russia has said it is willing to make peace but that Ukraine must withdraw from the entirety of four regions which Russia mostly controls and which President Vladimir Putin says are now legally part of Russia.
Ukraine and its European backers say those terms are tantamount to capitulation and that Russia is not interested in peace and that they will never accept Russian control of a fifth of Ukraine.
The areas under Russian control include Crimea, more than 99% of the Luhansk region, over 70% of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, all in the east or southeast, and fragments of the Kharkiv, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
(Reporting by Guy FaulconbridgeEditing by Andrew Osborn)
Russian forces have taken control of the village of Dachnoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
According to the Ukrainian Deep State map, Russia controls 113,588 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory.
Russia has stated that Ukraine must withdraw from four regions that Russia claims as legally part of its territory.
Ukraine and its European allies argue that Russia's terms are equivalent to capitulation and reject any Russian control over Ukrainian territory.
The areas under Russian control include Crimea, over 99% of Luhansk, more than 70% of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions.
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