Kyiv’s forces are waging a counteroffensive to recapture territory from Russian control. Read more at straitstimes.com.
With questions still swirling on Monday about the ramifications of the armed uprising, and as Mr Putin made his first public comments since the revolt was called off Saturday to thank Russia’s military for fending off the rebellion, the Ukraine presidential office appeared keen on accentuating his relationship with Ukrainian troops.
Mr Zelensky’s office posted a photo on Telegram during Mr Putin’s brief televised address, showing the Ukraine president standing at a table with a commander. It is unclear what effect the turmoil in Russia will have on the Ukrainian counteroffensive. So far, the situation on the front line has not changed significantly, although it remains possible that Ukraine may try toEarlier on Monday, Ukrainian officials reported that Kyiv’s forces had recaptured the small village of Rivnopil in the country’s east, near a string of settlements they retook earlier this month.
“We are moving forward,” General Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander of Ukraine’s land forces, said in a post on Telegram. But Ukrainian officials said that the fighting remained fierce and that Russia had increased its attacks in the east. Mr Zelensky acknowledged that the eastern front was “very difficult and hot” on Monday, according to his office, which said that he had told soldiers that “everyone in the country who is not at the front is well aware that you are doing the most difficult job today”. NYTIMES
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