Russia advances to east-central Ukrainian region amid row over dead soldiers

Russia said connected Sunday its forces had precocious to the borderline of the east-central Ukrainian portion of Dnipropetrovsk amid a nationalist enactment betwixt Moscow and Kyiv implicit bid negotiations and the instrumentality of thousands of bodies of soldiers who fell successful the war.

Amid speech of peace, the warfare is stepping up with Russian forces grabbing much territory successful Ukraine and Kyiv unfurling high-profile drone and sabotage attacks connected Russia's nuclear-capable bomber fleet and, according to Moscow, connected railways.

Russia, which controls a small nether one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, has taken much than 190 quadrate km (73 quadrate miles) of the Sumy portion of eastbound Ukraine successful little than a month, according to pro-Ukrainian unfastened root maps.

Now, according to the Russian defence ministry, units of the 90th Tank Division of the Central Grouping of Russian forces person reached the occidental frontier of Ukraine's Donetsk portion and are attacking the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region.

"The force does not wantonness its intentions to participate the Dnipropetrovsk region," Ukraine's Southern Defence Forces said connected Telegram. "Our soldiers are courageously and professionally holding their conception of the front, disrupting the occupier's plans. This enactment does not halt for a minute."

Dmitry Medvedev, the lawman president of Russia's Security Council, said the Dnipropetrovsk violative showed that if Ukraine did not privation to judge the world of Russia's territorial gains successful bid talks past Moscow's forces would beforehand further.

The pro-Ukrainian Deep State representation showed Russian forces precise adjacent to the Dnipropetrovsk region, which had a colonisation of much than 3 cardinal earlier the war, and advancing connected the metropolis of Kostyantynivka successful the Donetsk portion from respective directions.

A Ukrainian subject spokesman, Dmytro Zaporozhets, said that Russian forces were trying to "build a bridgehead for an attack" connected Kostyantynivka, an important logistical hub for the Ukrainian army.

Russia connected Saturday accused Ukraine of delaying the swap of prisoners of warfare and instrumentality of the bodies of 12,000 dormant soldiers, though Ukraine denied those claims.

Russia said connected Sunday it was moving bodies towards the borderline and tv showed refrigerated trucks containing the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers connected the roadworthy successful the Bryansk region.

Ukraine accused Russia of playing propaganda games and said that the speech of prisoners of warfare and the bodies of fallen soldiers was scheduled for adjacent week. Russia said Ukraine was playing authorities with the dead.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who says helium wants an extremity to the deadliest struggle successful Europe since World War Two, connected Thursday likened it to a combat betwixt young children and indicated that helium mightiness person to simply fto the struggle play out.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said connected Wednesday that helium did not deliberation Ukraine's leaders wanted peace, aft accusing them of ordering a bombing successful Bryansk, occidental Russia, that killed 7 radical and injured 115 a time earlier talks successful Turkey.

Ukraine, which has not commented connected the onslaught connected a Bryansk bridge, has likewise accused Moscow of not earnestly seeking peace, citing arsenic grounds Russian absorption to an contiguous ceasefire.

Russia is demanding planetary designation of Crimea, a peninsula annexed from Ukraine by Russia successful 2014, and 4 different regions of Ukraine that Moscow has claimed arsenic its ain territory. Ukraine would person to retreat its forces from each of them.

Russia controlled 113,273 quadrate km, oregon 18.8%, of Ukrainian territory arsenic of June 7, according to the Deep State map. That is an country bigger than the U.S. authorities of Virginia.

The areas nether Russian power see Crimea, much than 99% of the Luhansk region, implicit 70% of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, each successful the eastbound oregon southeast, and fragments of the Kharkiv and Sumy regions successful the northeast.

Putin told Trump connected Wednesday that helium would person to respond to Ukrainian drone attacks connected Russia's bomber fleet and the bombings of the railways.

The United States believes that Putin's threatened retaliation against Ukraine implicit its attacks has not happened yet successful earnest and is apt to beryllium a significant, multi-pronged strike, U.S. officials told Reuters.

Russia besides deed the northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv connected Friday evening and overnight with drones, missiles and guided bombs, sidesplitting astatine slightest 4 radical and injuring much than 60, including a baby, section officials said connected Saturday.

Russia besides said it had downed 61 Ukrainian drones overnight connected Sunday successful the Moscow region. Two large airports serving Moscow were closed temporarily.