Russia is advancing around Kostyantynivka and in the Sumy region with small, fast-moving units as both sides try a new tactic of using motorcycles and civilian cars to quickly cross open terrain.

It is designed to make the West think a Kremlin victory is inevitable.

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces have stopped Russian troops advancing in the northeastern Sumy region and are now battling along the border to regain control, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. In remarks released for publication by his office on Saturday,

Ukraine said on Friday it had received the bodies of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war with Russia as part of agreements to exchange both prisoners of war and the dead. "According to the Russian side,

Ukrainian officials say Ukraine has repatriated another 1,200 bodies in line with an agreement reached during peace talks in Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian delegations.