Russia said on Sunday (June 8, 2025) it was pushing into Ukraine's eastern Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in its three-year offensive, a significant territorial escalation.
Moscow claims to have annexed five regions of Ukraine, but has not made a formal claim over Dnipropetrovsk.
The Defence Ministry said forces from a tank unit had "reached the western border of the Donetsk People's Republic and are continuing to develop an offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region."
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The advance of Russian forces into yet another region of Ukraine is both a symbolic and strategic blow to Kyiv's forces afer months of setbacks on the battlefield.
