​Ukraine offensive: BBC goes inside village just freed from Russian forces

"The BBC is among the first media organisations to gain access to some of the first villages liberated in Ukraine's counteroffensive. Out of this cluster of four settlements in the eastern Donetsk region, Neskuchne has seen the heaviest fighting according to the battalion which liberated it. Ukraine lost six soldiers in the process.Its name means ‘not boring" in Ukrainian. An obvious irony for a village that was occupied by Russia in spring last year - a few weeks after President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It was at the most northern point of a protruding Russian front line. As our army escort, Anatoliy, speeds along scarred roads in his camouflaged truck towards Neskuchne, ...”

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