Ukraine's stunning offensive has "snowballed" as the country's chief commander says forces have now recaptured 3,000 square kilometres from Putin's army since the start of the month.
Their reinvigorated forces kept pushing north in the Kharkiv region and advancing to its south and east, Ukraine's army chief has said - a day after their rapid gains forced Russia to abandon its main bastion in the area.
It comes after the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the "entire Donetsk region will be liberated" and that "about 2,000 kilometres of our territory have already been liberated" in just 48 hours, around 770 square miles in the Kharkiv region.
