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  • Ukraine claimed throughout the weekend new military successes against the Russian army in the eastern and southern parts of its territory, with Moscow acknowledging that it had lost ground.

  • The Russian strikes, according to the Ukrainian general staff, hit 15 places on Sunday, from Kramatorsk in the east to Mykolaiv in the south, via Dnipro in the center-east.

    Last night, the bombardment of Pokrovsk, a city in the Donetsk region, caused the death of six inhabitants and destroyed or damaged "multiple buildings", lamented its mayor Ruslan Trebouchkine.

  • At the same time, the situation at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporijjia (south), where all the reactors have now been shut down, remained worrying.

    Vladimir Putin warned of the "catastrophic consequences" that "regular Ukrainian attacks" could have on this complex of six reactors, "including the deposit of radioactive waste", in a telephone interview with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

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7:48 am: Success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive

"As a result of the success of the counter-offensive of our troops in the Kharkiv region, the Russian troops quickly abandon their positions and flee", in particular "towards Russia", commented the Ukrainian staff in the evening Sunday .

“A large part of the Chuguyiv, Kupyansk and Balaklya districts have been liberated.

Today, we can say that around forty localities have already been liberated, but there are many more (…)”, added the governor of Kharkiv, Oleg Sinegoubov.

7:43 am: Breakthrough in the Russian lines

In the northeast, the ongoing Ukrainian counter-offensive was resulting, on the 200th day of the conflict, in significant breakthroughs in the Russian lines.

“Since the beginning of September, more than 3,000 km2 have returned to Ukrainian control,” proclaimed Valeri Zaloujny, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, according to whom his troops are “50 kilometers from the Russian border”.

On June 2, President Zelensky acknowledged that 20% of the total area of ​​his country, or some 125,000 km2, was in Russian hands, including more than 43,000 km2 (Crimea and part of the Donbass basin) conquered before the outbreak of the invasion on February 24.

7:37 am: Act of “desperation”

Ukrainian local authorities have reported Russian strikes on their electrical infrastructure.

Power was quickly restored to some of the affected areas.

In the Kharkiv region, "a company employee was killed" by a Russian strike on a power plant, and power was partially restored, according to regional governor Oleg Synegoubov.

According to Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, the attacks are "an act of desperation after Russia's immense losses and its retreat into eastern Ukraine".

7:31 a.m .: The Ukrainian army has “liberated” the strategic city of Izium in the East

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday evening that his army had recaptured the strategic town of Izium in eastern Ukraine from Russian forces, where kyiv is waging a counter-offensive that has broken through Russian lines.

In his daily address on the 200th day of the conflict, the Head of State thanked the Ukrainian soldiers who “liberated hundreds of our towns and villages (…) the most recent of which are Balakliïa, Izioum and Kupyansk”.

7:25 am: Hello everyone, welcome to this new live from the editorial staff of 20 Minutes on the war in Ukraine.

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