"Civilians will feel the shelling, especially during the winter."In response to territorial gains by the Ukrainian army, Russia has attacked power stations in Kharkiv, leading to blackouts across the region, says Solomiia Bobrovska.

The surprise [counterattack] has worked in Ukraine's favour to a large extent."Ukrainian troops are successfully ‘pushing out’ Russian forces from Kharkiv and are ‘hampering the Russians’ with their tactics, Times correspondent Askold Krushelnycky tells...

Ukraine says "heavy fighting" has broken out across nearly all of the southern Kherson region. Kyiv’s military says it broke Russian defences in Kherson in a major counter offensive to retake the territory.