Kyiv: Ukrainian Forces Liberate Areas Bordering Russian Territories

Ukrainian authorities said on Monday that their forces defending Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, repelled Russian forces and advanced until they reached the border with Russia.

“Reuters” was unable to verify Ukraine’s account of the course of the battles, and it was not yet clear how many forces reached the Russian border, nor their location.

If this news is confirmed, it will indicate that the Ukrainian counter-attack is achieving increasing success in repelling Russian forces in the northeast of the country, after Western military and security services said that Moscow’s attack on the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine had stumbled. A battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had reached the border with Russia, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.