Russia says its powers reach the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine | Today news

Russia said its land forces crossed the Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time, a symbolic milestone in their grinding offensive as prospects for a US ceasefire remains elusive. The claim cannot be verified independently, and the Southern Army of Ukraine said his troops ‘hold their part of the front’ while involved in a ‘tense’ situation. Units of the 90th Tank Regiment crossed the western boundary of Donetsk in the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russia’s defense ministry said at its telegram channel on Sunday. This would be the first time Moscow’s land forces began in one of Ukraine’s most populated and industrialized areas since the start of the large -scale invasion more than three years ago. The value of reaching the edge of the region usually looks symbolic, as Kremlin troops are still more than 140 kilometers from the DNIPRO regional capital, which is also protected by the river of the same name and its river system. But if he pushes further west, it could attract the aggressive attitude taken by President Vladimir Putin, which sticks to the maximalist goals in Ukraine while resisting US President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring him to the negotiating table. Dnipro is the fourth largest city of Ukraine, behind Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa, with a population before the war of about 1 million people. The advance is taking place at a time Russia has recently seized small amounts of territory near the border of the nations in the northeastern Sumy region of Ukraine. It also brings the war to the land of two provinces that have so far not been officially earmarked for annexation by Putin. The Russian president demanded that Kyiv surrender all provinces Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, who annexed Russia illegally in 2022, but did not fully control. This is in addition to Crimea, which Kremlin forces illegally annexed in 2014. Russia’s slow land war made faster this past May, with the capture of a small amount of territory at the end of May. Before the start of the war, Dnipropetrovsk was the Ukraine’s second most populated region after Donetsk, and it is the second largest area per land mass to the Odesa region. It is home to a large steel industry, coal mining and machine building and is an important logistical pivot for the army. © 2025 Bloomberg MP This article was generated from an automatic news agency feed without edits to text.