Russia said on Sunday (June 8) its forces had advanced to the edge of the east-central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk amid a public row between Moscow and Kyiv over peace negotiations and the return of thousands of bodies of soldiers who fell in the war.

Russia claimed Sunday that its forces are for the first time pushing into the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, an area it has been trying to reach for months, in a move that could create new problems for Kyiv’s much-stretched forces.

Russia claimed on Sunday that its forces had reached the border of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time and were pushing into the central-eastern industrial and mining hub in what