Apparently, after a month of war, Ukrainian troops in different regions of the country managed to recapture areas from the Russian occupiers.

Several sources suggest this.

According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Russian troops in front of Kyiv were pushed back in some places;

a spokesman for the ministry said on Thursday.

A map of the Kiev government, which the American NBC journalist Richard Engel spread on Twitter, showed Russian troop accumulations, especially in the north and northeast of the capital, as well as Ukrainian recaptures, with which Russian-occupied areas in the north were encircled.

That's all happened this week, according to two local officials, and the biggest counterattack since the beginning of the war - a "very encouraging" sign.

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A senior US official said on Wednesday that Russian troops appeared to be setting up defensive positions 15 to 20 kilometers from Kyiv.

There is little Russian progress in trying to penetrate the center of the Ukrainian capital.

Instead, the occupiers increased their focus on fighting in the east - a possible attempt to tie down Ukrainian troops and prevent them from defending more western cities.

The Ukrainian military also named Kyiv and the Luhansk and Donetsk regions as the main targets of the Russians on Thursday;

in other places the offensives would be stopped.

According to the governor of Luhansk, four people died in the shelling on Thursday night;

the occupiers used rockets and phosphorus bombs.

The information can hardly be verified independently.

Police in Kharkiv said the eastern Ukrainian city and its suburbs continued to be "mercilessly" shelled.

The people sat in the shelters almost around the clock.

Since the beginning of the war, it said on Thursday in its Telegram channel, 294 civilians, including 15 children, had been killed in the region.

The "malicious actions" of the Russian occupiers are documented in detail.

According to the United Nations, a month after the war began, at least 1,035 civilians have died;

1650 were injured.

Nathan Ruser, a satellite data and open-source information expert at the Australia Strategic Policy Institute, tweeted a map Thursday showing Ukrainian reconquests in the south of the country around Mykolaiv.

In southern Ukraine's Kherson, the first major city captured by the Russian army on March 2, the Ukrainian flag was again hoisted over the city council building on Thursday.

"Have a nice day, my hero city!" the mayor wrote on Facebook along with a photo of the flag.

Attempts to negotiate escape corridors with Russia for the around 100,000 people still trapped in besieged Mariupol failed again on Thursday, according to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wereshchuk.

According to the authorities, 6,000 people from Mariupol have been deported to Russia and their passports confiscated.

Transport facilities for the evacuation are available in Berdyansk, a good eighty kilometers from Mariupol.

The Ukrainian Navy said on Thursday it had destroyed the Russian landing ship Orsk docked in the port of the occupied southern Ukrainian city of Berdyansk.

Footage showed a fireball and black smoke over the port.