Russia seeks to exploit situation as Kyiv’s counteroffensive concentrates on south and east of country
Russian forces are targeting the Kharkiv oblast in an attempt to take back the north-eastern region almost a year after it was liberated by Ukrainian troops, a defence minister in Kyiv has said.
In the latest strikes on the border region, including the bombing of villages near the city of Kupiansk, two people were said to have been killed and three wounded, while a woman was reported to have died in an attack in Kherson in southern Ukraine.
