Myroslav Semeniuk, spokesman for the brigade, told the Associated Press that an assault team captured six Russian troops after entering several buildings where some 60 soldiers were holed up.

Zelensky said that ‘the counteroffensive, defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine. I will not speak about which stage or phase they are in.’

The Russian Embassy in Washington announced Monday on Twitter its forces had ‘annihilated’ 8 German-made Leopard tanks, among the most advanced and powerful weapons NATO countries have provided to Ukraine.

Thousands of people are believed to be trapped by floodwaters across a swath of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukrainian troops have started their long-expected counteroffensive

Thousands of people are believed to be trapped by floodwaters spread across a swath of Ukraine after a catastrophic dam collapse.

The collapse of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam and emptying of its reservoir on the Dnieper River added to the misery the region has suffered for more than a year from artillery and missile attacks.

Russian and Ukrainian officials used terms like ‘ecological disaster’ and ‘terrorist act’ to describe the torrent of water gushing through the broken dam and beginning to empty an upstream reservoir that is one of the world’s largest.