Ukrainian forces have completed their "combat mission" in Mariupol, according to a statement from the country's army.
It comes after hundreds of people were evacuated from a steel plant that was the city's last holdout under relentless Russian bombardment.
A Ukrainian unit fighting north of Kharkiv said it reached the Russian border.
According to Ukrainian officials, Russian forces are withdrawing from the north following Ukraine's counteroffensive, but are intensifying attacks in the east.
Sweden and Finland have announced that they will seek to join NATO.
President Putin said his entry into the US-led alliance will not create a threat to Russia, but military expansion into the territory "certainly will provoke our response."
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