Live: Ukrainians make gains in east, hold on at Mariupol mill
Ukrainian forces made strategic gains on Tuesday, pushing Russian forces back in some parts of the country. Meanwhile, the US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to send a new $40 billion Ukraine aid package.
**See how the day's events unfolded in our blog below.**
Ukrainian counter-offensive making strategic gains, says US thinktank.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cited some good news Tuesday from the front, where he said the Ukrainian military was gradually pushing the Russian troops away from Kharkiv.
The Ukrainian General Staff said its forces drove the Russians out of four villages to the northeast of Kharkiv as it tries to push them back toward the Russian border.
Meanwhile Tuesday, Ukrainian officials say Russian missiles pummeled the vital port of Odesa, apparently as part of efforts to disrupt supply lines and weapons shipments critical to Kyiv’s defense.
With the war now in its 11th week and Kyiv bogging down Russian forces in many places and even staging a counteroffensive in others, Ukraine’s foreign minister appeared to voice confidence that the country could expand its aims beyond merely pushing Russia back to areas it or its allies held on the day of 24 February invasion.
(AP)
The Ukrainian counteroffensive north of Kharkiv City has continued to successfully push Russian forces towards the Russia-Ukraine border, according to the latest assessment by the Washington DC-based Institute for the Study of War.
Ukrainian forces liberated several towns north of Kharkiv City on Tuesday, and continued pushing north of the recently liberated Staryi Saltiv to capture several towns northeast of Kharkiv: a Russian source claimed that Ukrainian troops advanced to within 10 kilometres of the Russian border,
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