It’s Monday night in Kyiv. Here’s what you need to know

The Ukrainian army has reported advances throughout its counteroffensive within the south and persevering with efforts to carry off Russian advances within the japanese Donbas area.

The Basic Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported Monday extra Russian efforts to degrade Ukrainian defenses in Luhansk and Donetsk, saying that artillery, airstrikes and missiles had been utilized in a number of locations — together with Lysychansk and Soledar.

Russian strain on Severodonetsk, a metropolis the place two-thirds of properties have been reported as destroyed, continues — with the Basic Employees saying that hostilities persist in and across the metropolis. 

Because the Russians assault Ukrainian strains in Donbas from the south, east and north, there are conflicting claims about their progress. 

The Basic Employees mentioned that preventing continues across the village of Komyshuvakha, to the southwest of Severodonetsk. Social media video geolocated by CNN seems to indicate a Chechen unit within the village, with drone footage suggesting Ukrainian troopers retreating from the world. A Chechen commander says:  “This locality is now underneath our management, and we are going to start storming all fronts. We’ve seized, fully, you possibly can say, Komyshuvakha.”

Ukraine has claimed some success in its offensive within the south, which started in the course of the weekend. The Basic Employees mentioned, “the enemy suffered losses and withdrew from the village of Mykolaivka, Kherson area, which led to panic amongst servicemen of different items of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.” 

If Russian forces have withdrawn from Mykolaivka, it will signify a acquire of a number of kilometers for Ukrainian items. 

The Basic Employees reported continued additional cross-border shelling of settlements within the northern areas of Chernihiv and Sumy, in addition to shelling of territory north of the town of Kharkiv which has just lately been retaken by Ukrainian forces.

Serhiy Hayday, the pinnacle of the Luhansk area army administration, mentioned late Monday that whereas all elements of Luhansk area nonetheless underneath Ukrainian management are being attacked, “the scenario in Severodonetsk is basically essentially the most tough.”

The official famous that Russian forces had been in a position to “push by means of territory from the outskirts of the town, the place the Myr lodge is, and transfer a bit of deeper into the town. Within the metropolis now, there are and can be road battles.”

CNN’s Kostan Nechyporenko contributed reporting to this put up.