Russia-Ukraine conflict rages on its 559th day.
Ukraine has said its troops had regained more territory on the eastern front and were advancing south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited two front-line areas.
Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said Kiev's forces had retaken about 3 square km of land in the past week around the eastern city of Bakhmut, which was captured by Russian troops in May after months of heavy fighting. She also reported unspecified"success" in the direction of the villages Novodanylivka and Novoprokopivka in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia but gave no details.
Ukraine has now taken back about 47 square km of territory around Bakhmut since starting its counteroffensive in early June, Maliar wrote on the Telegram messaging app.Russia's air defence systems shot down Ukraine-launched drones in the Istra district of the Moscow region and in the Kaluga region that targeted the capital, the country's defence ministry and Moscow's mayor said.
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