Tactical breakthrough: Ukrainian special forces report capture of Russian position. At just over 2,000 meters, Hoverla, in the forest Carpathians, after which the operation was named, is the highest mountain in Ukraine.

“It would have been better if I had stayed in prison for a year and nine months,” the Russian prisoner admits in a recording of a conversation with one of the Ukrainian soldiers. “War must be brought to Russia”: CDU expert calls for escalation – against the worst case scenario.