 Russia's Defense Ministry said on Wednesday its forces had taken control of a village in eastern Ukraine's war-torn Donetsk region. The ministry released a video said to show the fighting in the area, Khromov, which Russia calls Artyomovskoye, is on the western outskirts of Bakhmut, a city which Russia captured last summer after a months-long battle. The village had a pre-war population of 1,000 people, Reuters could not independently verify the Defense Ministry's assertion and independently confirm the date when the videos were filmed. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine Reuters was able to verify the location of the video by road and railway layout, field outline and electricity poles, which matched the satellite imagery of the area.