Ukraine's Armed Forces de-occupy about 388 Kharkiv region settlements

Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defense, Hanna Maliar, wrote about this on Facebook.

Since September 6, Ukraine's Armed Forces have liberated about 388 settlements, 8,500 square kilometers, and 150,000 Ukrainians in the Kharkiv region. 

"It is very important to perceive them in the general context of the war, and not separately. We still have to liberate a lot of our people and our lands before complete victory," Maliar emphasized.

The deputy minister writes that the data on the deoccupied territories of the Kharkiv region are constantly updated, because "the process is dynamic."

"The liberated territories still need additional security and stabilization measures in order to be able to live there safely. Therefore, official notifications with the numbers of liberated settlements are provided with a deliberate delay and may or may not take into account the stabilization measures carried out, and therefore differ," Maliar added.