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In one statement On Sunday, the General Staff of the Ukrainian army said that Russian forces had abandoned the town of Svatove in the Luhansk region, a town that until Saturday was still 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the frontline of the Ukrainian army. Ukrainian offensive.

Svatove has been an important hub on Russian supply routes to the front line further south – along the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

“The occupiers abandoned Svatove in the Luhansk region,” the general staff’s office said in a Facebook post. “They drove off in four Kamaz trucks, twenty Tigr AVs [armored vehicles] and stole more than 20 cars of local people. “

CNN was unable to independently verify the Ukrainian account.

The General Staff also stated that “as a result of our successful counterattack in the direction of Kharkiv, the Russians frantically left their positions and fled with their spoils into the temporarily occupied territories. occupy or enter the territory of the Russian Federation. “

It referred to an alleged episode, which read that “150 service members of the armed forces of the Russian Federation left in a convoy from Borshchova and Artemivka of the Kharkiv region on two buses, one truck and 19 cars were stolen.”

Borshchova is located north of the city of Kharkiv, just a few kilometers from Ukraine’s border with Russia.