According to Kyiv, some Russian troops are withdrawing from their positions in Ukraine's southern region of Zaporizhzhia.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian military said that Russian units have left the settlements of Mykhailivka, Polohy and Inzhenerne, all towns south of the city of Zaporizhzhia.
The military added that the Kremlin is preparing to evacuate the personnel of the occupation administrations in the region.
Since the beginning of the invasion, Zaporizhzhia has been partially occupied by Russian forces and in September Moscow illegally declared it and three other Ukrainian regions to be Russian territory.
The front lines in the region run more than 100 miles across rolling farmland. Geolocated footage posted on Wednesday shows the aftermath of strikes on buildings in Polohy.
On the battlefield, the Ukrainians seem to be repeating actions they took further south in Kherson, namely striking bridges, supply hubs and Russian troop concentrations behind the front lines.
Ukrainian forces pushed into Kherson over the past few months and liberated large areas of the region, including Kherson city, after Russian troops withdrew east of the Dnipro River last month.
In recent days, the General Staff said that their strikes on about half a dozen places had wounded more than 230 Russian soldiers and destroyed ammunition and equipment.
CNN is unable to confirm the claims made by the General Staff.
In recent weeks, powerful explosions have rocked the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been rocked by concerns that fighting so close to the facility could cause a nuclear accident.
More than a dozen blasts were heard within a short period, according to UN nuclear experts at the plant on November 20. Shelling was observed near and at the site of the facility.
The Director General of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, hopes to reach an agreement with Russia and Ukraine on protecting the plant by the end of the year.
Grossi said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his commitment is to reach a solution as soon as possible. I hope to have it done by the end of the year. I am aware that President Putin is following the process and I do not rule out another meeting with him soon, as well as Ukrainian President Zelensky. The Russian military has begun a census in some parts of the occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region, according to the Ukrainian mayor-in-exile of the southern Ukrainian city of Melitopol.
The Russians have been in a lot of trouble over the past few days. They were taking the wounded out of the hospital. Then they started a census in the towns of Burchak and Mykhailivka to prepare for evacuation, Ivan Fedorov said on national television Friday. The Ukrainian military said that the occupation authorities are conducting a census in Burchak.
Since the early days of the invasion, Melitopol has been occupied by Russian forces. Analysts have suggested that the Ukrainians' next offensive front will likely be a sluggish one.
The General Staff said that Russian forces continued to defend their positions in the Luhansk region using tanks, mortars and artillery to prevent further advances of Ukrainian forces.
Russian units shelled several settlements in recently liberated parts of the Kherson region. Ukrainian Brigadier General Oleksii Hromov claimed last week that Russian forces had accidentally fired on their own unit near the village of Tsukury in Kherson, killing 14 servicemen. CNN can't verify that claim.
Hromov said Russian forces had gathered in the city of Dzankhoi in Crimea, which had actually turned into the largest military base on the territory from where Russian troops and weapons and military equipment of the Russian Armed Forces are deployed.