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A drive across the badly damaged Kyiv suburb of Irpin, recaptured by Ukrainians

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This pool footage of a drive across the badly damaged Irpin, showing the destruction across the western suburb of Kyiv.

Reports indicate that the hotly disputed western region near the capital city was in Russian hands amid the month-plus invasion but now has returned to Ukrainian control.

The victory is both strategically and symbolically important as it marks the closest the Russian army had gotten to Kyiv, which is only 3 miles away from Irpin.

Recent ceasefire negotiations indicate the Kremlin promised to reduce “by multiples” the intensity of its military activity around Kyiv, an area that includes Irpin, in effect acknowledging that the short march to the capital that was expected has been met with fierce and unyielding resistance.

“They will not abandon plans to take the capital,” Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, said to media.

“Today we have good news,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address seen on Monday. “Our defenders are advancing in the Kyiv region, regaining control over Ukrainian territory," before adding that Irpin was now "liberated."

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