Updates from Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Ukrainian general staff is reporting that the border of Sumskaya oblast is entirely under control of Ukrainian military

Update to two posts above: there is still no credible evidence to Russia withdrawing their entire forces from Kiev direction, but there is evidence of substantial retreats as marked by yellow arrows. Other changes are still relevant.

Rough borders on Lugansk and Donetsk regions are marked with blue. It's questonable will the russian army be able to even keep already conquered territories of Lugansk and Donetsk, bot to mention advancing to their borders - something that was officially one of the targets of this war along with changing the Ukrainian government for more loyal forces from the beginning.

Some theories suggest that this retreat may be used to concentrate on the Donetsk and Lugansk regions - taking them entirely would be an acceptable "achievement" for Russia to end the war with results that Putin's supporters will understand and support. In any case, russian army had left Kiev region entirely, and is retreating from the western shore of Dnieper river. War is not over yet, but this is an enormous achievement for Ukraine - before the war the estimates were that Ukraine will surrender in 24 hours.

Russia is retreating from Kiyev, there will be lots of such news in a couple of days

"Russia is not objecting integration of Ukraine into the EU" - Medinsky