UKRAINIAN military officials said today that troops had recaptured a fourth village in the south-east of the country from Russian forces following days of an intense counteroffensive in the region.

Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said that Ukraine’s flag was again flying over the village of Storozhov, in the eastern Donetsk region.

A day earlier, Kiev said its troops had taken three other small villages nearby: Blahodatne, Makarivka and Neskuchne.