Some 45 people lived in the village before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The Russian army said Sunday it had captured a small village in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine. “The village of Krakhmalnoye in the Kharkiv region was liberated,” the Russian defence ministry said in its daily bulletin on operations in Ukraine, citing “successful active operations”. Some 45 people lived in the village before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It is some 30 (nearly 20 miles) kilometres southeast of the regional hub of Kupiansk — an important railway junction that had a …