Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned that Russia would end up occupying almost all of Ukraine if it continued to receive Western weapons, posting a map to illustrate his claim. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that at the current rate of Moscow's advances in its full-scale invasion,

The advance may be linked to Moscow's attempts to create "buffer zones" along the border, Ukrainian regional authorities say.

Russian forces have seized control of four villages (Novenke, Basivka, Veselivka, Zhuravka) in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, an area under Ukrainian control since 2022, marking a notable, albeit limited,