Ukraine rejected claims that Russian forces enter the most important central region | Today news

Kyiv’s armed forces rejected as “disinformation” the claim of Russia that his ground troops crossed the Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time, even if the prospects for a ceasefire in the American knife are. Separately, Ukraine and Russia continued evidence exchanges on the details of a planned large prisoner exchange that agreed during last week’s talks in Turkey. The exchange is likely to continue in the coming days. Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that units of his 90th tank regiment crossed the Western administrative border of Donetsk in the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk in a symbolic milestone in their years of offensive. In response, the southern army of Ukraine said his troops ‘keep their part of the front’, while involved in a situation that, although ‘tense’, is still in the Donetsk region. The possible progress by Moscow’s land forces is the possible progress in one of the most populated and industrialized areas of Ukraine. 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. Yet the aggressive attitude taken by President Vladimir Putin, which is further crawled into the west, which holds at 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. 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. A few days ago, the Kremlin powers were about 2 kilometers from the provincial border. The advance occurs at a time Russia has recently seized small amounts of territory in Ukraine’s Far Northeast. 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 leader demanded that Kyiv surrenders all Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson provinces, which Russia illegally annexed 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 faster again. Kremlin units have advanced closer to the regional capital Sumy in the northeast of Ukraine over the past few days. Parts of the Sumy region were inhabited during Russia’s full-scale invasion of 2022, and were freed in a Ukrainian counter-offensive. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said last week that Russia’s renewed focus on the Sumy region “was not a surprise” for the Ukrainian army, which does its best to ward off the advance. According to public broadcaster SUNSCILNE, SUMY’s local governor said that no emergency evacuation of residents was needed. Ukraine’s coordination headquarters for the treatment of POWs said on Sunday: “Everything is moving according to plan” to continue with a large prisoner exchange agreed on June 2, which will also include the return of bodies of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in Russia. Russia suggested on Saturday that Ukraine would blame for delays with the start of the exchange. © 2025 Bloomberg MP This article was generated from an automatic news agency feed without edits to text.