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KYIV, Ukraine, Dec 12, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukraine on Friday said it had recaptured two settlements in the northern Kharkiv region and pushed Russian 
troops back in Kupiansk, a key railway hub that Russia claimed to have seized last month.

"Kindrashivka, Radkivka, and their outskirts have been liberated, as well as a number of neighbourhoods in northern Kupiansk," the Khartia army corps said 
on social media.