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German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht on Monday again rejected demands to supply Kyiv with main battle tanks.

Ukraine has kept the counteroffensive momentum in its war against Russia going

Ukraine has announced fresh gains in its counter-offensive, including the recapture of the strategic city of Izyum in the country's east, where Kyiv accused Russia of carrying out reprisal strikes against electricity infrastructure. Throughout the weekend Ukraine claimed new military successes against Russia's army in the east and south, the…

Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure Sunday, causing outages across Ukraine as Kyiv's forces pressed a swift counteroffensive.

Ukrainian forces swept deeper into territory seized from fleeing Russian troops on Monday and joyful residents returned to former frontline villages, while Moscow's shells rained down on Kharkiv, setting off fires across the region's main city.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of hitting civilian infrastructure a day after Russian troops were forced to retreat.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv's forces have retaken huge parts of the country in the past 48 hours signalling the "beginning of the end of the Russian barbaric Empire"

Ukrainian troops have made lightning gains in the east of the country, inflicting one of Russia's worst military setbacks since the Feb. 24 invasion.

Ukraine's chief commander, General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said on Sunday that the armed forces had regained control of more than 3,000 square km (1,158 square miles) since the start of this month. "There are 50km to go to the state border (with Russia)," he wrote on Telegram

‘The Russian army ... is demonstrating the best that it can do, showing its back’, crows President Zelensky

KYIV: Ukrainian forces kept pushing north in the Kharkiv region and advancing to the south and east of the country after the swift fall of Russia's main bastion in the northeast, Ukraine's army chief said on Sunday.