- Ukrainian forces are making progress near Kharkiv and in the south near Kherson.
- A mass grave was found in the city of Izyum, which was just recently taken back.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the world needs to see what Russian army left behind.
Vladimir Putin says that Russia will do everything it can to end the war in Ukraine “as soon as possible,” even though his military has been losing ground in recent days.
In parts of the north east, Russian troops have been pushed back, and defence forces have taken back thousands of square kilometres of land near Kharkiv.
The Ukrainian flag is once again flying over dozens of settlements, including the important city of Izyum, where a mass grave was found. A top police investigator was shocked by the find.
Ukrainian forces are encouraged by the fact that they are making progress near Kharkiv and in the south near Kherson. They hope to push Russian soldiers out of all of Ukraine.
But this is probably not what President Putin means when he talks about ending the war quickly.
He spoke with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a televised summit in the Uzbek city of Samarkand.
“I know that today’s era is not an era of war, and I have spoken to you on the phone about this,” Mr Modi told the Russian president.
