10:24 a.m .: British Prime Minister reiterates financial support for Ukraine
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has pledged to maintain and even increase UK military support for Ukraine in 2023 during her first trip abroad as head of government to the Assembly General of the United Nations.
In a statement, she said her country intended to match or even exceed the £2.3 billion (2.6 billion euros) in military aid pledged this year.
"The victories of Ukraine in recent weeks are a source of inspiration," she said, after Ukrainian forces recaptured territories occupied by Russian forces in a counter-offensive.
“My message to Ukrainians is: the UK will continue to stand right behind you every step of the way. Your security is our security.”
9:59 a.m .: Russia and Ukraine ready to “exchange 200 prisoners”, says Erdogan
Russia and Ukraine at war have agreed to "exchange 200 prisoners", Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last night on American television PBS.
During an interview, the Turkish head of state affirmed that "200 prisoners will soon be exchanged following an agreement between the parties", considering that this is a "significant" step forward in this conflict.
He did not give any other details on this agreement, nor on the people concerned, civilians or soldiers.
For Recep Tayyip Erdogan - who met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) - the head of the Kremlin "wants to end this war as soon as possible".
8:12 a.m.: In the field with Ukrainian soldiers in the Kharkiv region
If the kyiv counter-offensive took Russian troops by surprise, the extent of its success surprised Ukrainian soldiers just as much.
Our journalist went to meet several of them in the Kharkiv region.
Reportage.
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The Ukrainian counter-offensive took Russian troops by surprise and the extent of its success surprised Ukrainian soldiers.
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12:34 a.m .: Ukrainian army increases pressure in Donbass
The Ukrainian army continued, on Monday, to consolidate its positions in the territories of the north-east of the country recently reconquered and resumed its advance east of the Oskil river, from where it could launch a new offensive towards the part of Donbass under Russian control.
Sign of growing nervousness, the pro-Russian leaders of the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk have called for the rapid holding of referendums on the attachment of their self-proclaimed republics to Russia.
"The occupiers are very clearly panicking," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily televised address.
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Serhiy Gaïdaï, the Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region - totally controlled by the Russian army at present - indicated for his part that the Ukrainian army had taken over the town of Kreminna and the village of Bilohorivka, close to the strategic city of Lysytchansk, conquered in July by Russian forces after heavy fighting.
"The Luhansk region is on the other side," he said on Telegram, referring to the city of Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk's twin, on the other side of the Donets River.
"De-occupation is not far away."
With AFP and Reuters
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