The Russian Protection Ministry claimed on March 29 that its troops had captured Veselivka, a village in Ukraine's Sumy Oblast on the border with Russia.
The Ukrainian navy has not commented on the claims, which couldn’t be independently verified. The Kyiv Impartial has contacted navy representatives for remark.
The information comes amid regular Russian makes an attempt to cross the border in small teams and achieve a foothold within the northeastern Ukrainian area.
President Volodymyr Zelensky additionally warned that Moscow is getting ready to launch a large-scale offensive into Sumy Oblast and neighboring Kharkiv Oblast this spring.
Veselivka, a tiny settlement with a pre-war inhabitants of over 60 individuals, lies simply throughout the border with Russia's Kursk Oblast, the place the preventing continues regardless of current speedy advances by Russian forces.
The village lies some 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of the regional middle, Sumy.
DeepState, a Ukrainian group monitoring battlefield developments, marked components of Veselivka as a "grey zone," denoting them as a contested space between Ukrainian and Russian forces.
Russian reconnaissance and sabotage teams have been intensifying efforts to penetrate into Sumy Oblast, specializing in different border settlements like Novenke and Zhuravka, Ukraine's State Border Guard Service beforehand stated.
The event follows a Russian counterattack in Kursk Oblast launched in early March, which noticed Ukraine lose most of its positions within the Russian area, together with the city of Sudzha.
Kyiv launched the Kursk incursion final August to divert Russian troops preventing in Ukraine's east and to disrupt Russian plans for a brand new offensive in Sumy Oblast.
The Kyiv IndependentMartin Fornusek
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