Ukraine reclaims the “entire Kyiv region”: Columns of Russian armoured vehicles line highways in “tank graveyards.”

Ukraine has reclaimed the “entire Kyiv area,” according to Hanna Maliar, the country’s deputy defence minister.

‘Irpin, Bucha, Gostomel, and the whole Kyiv region were liberated from the invader,’ claimed Maliar.
This week, the Ukrainian army retook Irpin and Bucha, two commuter towns west of Kyiv. Both towns have been devastated, with a significant civilian casualty toll.

According to the mayor of Bucha, 280 people were buried in a mass grave in the town, and corpses covered the streets.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, at least 200 people have been murdered in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, while Gostomel, also near Kyiv, has seen significant combat to gain control of the airport there.

Ukraine has stated that Russia is withdrawing from northern territories and looks to be focussing on the country’s east and south.

It came as once-bustling roadways on Kyiv’s outskirts have now become a graveyard for dozens of Vladimir Putin’s tanks, as the Ukrainians continue their victorious counterattacks around the capital.

Columns of Russian armoured vehicles have been crushed to rubble as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s army continue to oppose Russian forces and, in some cases, reclaim highways and communities near Kyiv.

As Ukrainian forces approach, they are confronted with burned-out tanks and highly armoured personnel transport vehicles that litter the roadways that were formerly occupied by commuters travelling in or out of the capital.

However, even more gruesome discoveries are being made in the villages and towns that make up Kyiv’s urban sprawl. After retaking Bucha from Russian forces, Ukrainian troops discovered the remains of 20 men dressed in civilian clothing on a single street.

Eyewitnesses reported one of the victims had his wrists bound, and the dead bodies were scattered across residential roads in the suburban town of 28,000 people, which was originally home to 28,000 people.

President Zelensky warned Moscow’s withdrawing soldiers that they are leaving behind ‘catastrophic’ scenarios by mining the lands around their houses, abandoning their wrecked equipment and the ‘corpses of those slain.’

After Russian soldiers departed from the region, Zelensky’s men reclaimed control of the Chernobyl nuclear power facility today.

According to Ukraine’s nuclear agency, the national flag was flown over the facility and the national hymn was sung.

Despite successful Ukrainian counter-attacks, the nation is still facing more than five weeks of conflict and there is little indication that the more than 4 million refugees who have fled Ukraine will return anytime soon.

Zelenskyy predicted that departing cities would be subjected to missile and rocket attacks from afar, and that the war in the east would be fierce.

‘It’s still not feasible to restore to regular life, as it used to be, even in the regions that we are reclaiming after the conflict,’ the president said in a nightly video address to his country.