Ukraine claims gains against Moscow’s forces in Kharkiv, near the Russian border.

A day after Ukraine’s counteroffensive unseated Russian forces from a cluster of towns northeast of the city of Kharkiv, the region’s governor said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian efforts had driven Moscow’s forces “even further” from the city, giving them “even less opportunity to fire on the regional center.”

The apparent success at pushing back Russian troops outside Kharkiv — Ukraine’s second largest city, which is about 20 miles from the Russian border — appears to have contributed to reduced shelling there in recent days, even as Russia makes advances along parts of the front line to the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Read more

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