Ukraine makes more gains and pushes back to border in places
Kyiv’s sudden momentum has lifted Ukrainian morale.
Kyiv’s sudden momentum has lifted Ukrainian morale.
The general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine said its troops have liberated more than 20 settlements in the last day.
The second day of tributes ran for more than seven hours.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence said it believed the Ukrainians had advanced as much as 30 miles in the advance south of Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine.
Pope Francis also used a telegram to Charles to offer his condolences.
The Russian president visited a Moscow hospital where the former Soviet leader’s body was being kept before Saturday’s funeral.
The former Soviet leader died at the age of 91.
The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital.
Russian forces have controlled the plant, the biggest in Europe, since soon after the war began.
Fears persist that fighting in the vicinity of the Zaporizhzhia facility could damage it and cause a radiation leak.
Fire damage to a transmission line at Europe’s largest nuclear plant caused a blackout across the region and heightened fears of a catastrophe.
Geneneral Valerii Zaluzhnyi said Ukraine’s children need to be taken care of because ‘their father went to the front line’.
The Russian military also kept up its strikes in Ukraine’s north and south.
Shelling early on Saturday collapsed balconies and blew out windows in Mykolayiv.
The Russian defence ministry claimed Saturday its forces had taken control of Pisky, a village on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk.