Russia claims another village in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk

Russia on Saturday said it had captured a new village in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region, which Moscow's forces say they reached at the beginning of July.

The defense ministry said its troops had seized the village of Novomykolaivka near the border with the Donetsk region – the epicenter of fighting on the front.

DeepState, an online battlefield map run by Ukrainian military analysts, said the village was still under Kyiv's control.

The Russian army currently controls about a fifth of Ukrainian territory.

On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin wanted to "occupy all of Ukraine" and would not stop until his goal was achieved, even if Kyiv agreed to cede territory.

For its part, the Kremlin noted on Friday that peace negotiations with Kyiv were on "pause," following the failure of several attempts in recent months to diplomatically resolve the conflict.

(Cover: A smoke rises over the city due to a fire at a factory in Dnipro, Ukraine, September 5, 2025. /VCG)