Where does RUssia expect UKRaine’s counterattack? Overview of defensive lines; The Offensive Before the Offensive: UKR Strikes Behind RU Lines; UKR reports new advances near eastern city of Bakhmut; Damaged Patriot missile system is already repaired, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine air defense successfully fights off ‘exceptional’ RUssian missile attack on Kyiv; UKR reports gains around Bakhmut; UKR's military regains 20 square kilometers near Bakhmut; Most brutal fights near Bakhmut and Marinka; three RU electronic warfare stations and two munitions warehouses destroyed, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

‘Bakhmut Trap’: UKRainian Advances Vindicate Defense of Besieged City; UKR Troops Gird for Counteroffensive They Hope Will End War; UKR Forces Advance On Bakhmut Flanks Despite RUssia's 'fierce resistance'; UKR Hails Gains in Bakhmut, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

RUssian Forces Make Unsuccessful Attempts to Advance on Kupiansk and Marinka Fronts; UKRainian Military Achieves Success on Flanks in Bakhmut; UKR Forces Capture over 10+ Positions Near Bakhmut; UKR Air Force Downs 25 Ru Drones, 3 Missiles Overnight, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

RUssia Tried to Destroy US Patriot System in UKRaine — but Moscow’s Plan Blew Up; 4 RU Aircraft Shot Down ‘simultaneously’ Near UKR Border; UKR Makes Localized Advances Near Bakhmut; UKR Forces Not Only Defend Their Positions but Launch Offensive Operations on Bakhmut Front, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Constant Fighting Continues in Bakhmut, UKRainian Armed Forces Repel 36 RUssian Attacks on 4 Fronts; RU Assaults Failed in Bakhmut's Suburbs, 4 RU Drones were Downed; RU Acknowledges Retreat North of Bakhmut, Wagner Boss Calls it a 'rout'; UKR Presses Counterattack Around Bakhmut, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Zelensky Urges Caution on Timing of Counteroffensive as UKRaine Advances in Bakhmut; Ukraine Says It Has Pushed Back RUssian Forces in Bakhmut; UK Delivers Long-Range Missiles Ahead of UKR's Counteroffensive; UKR's Defence Forces strike 8 RU Command Posts, 1 Anti-Aircraft System and 2 Other Critical Military Targets, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine's Defenders Defeat 72nd RUssian Brigade Near Bakhmut, Liberate Territory and Capture Prisoners; RU Brigade Seriously Damaged, Bakhmut Still Moscow’s Top Target; Video Shows Moment UKRs Annihilate Fleeing RU Troops; UKR Army Creating More Mobile Air Defence Units, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine Regains Ground Around Bakhmut as Fighting Rages; Putin Condemns Western Support for UKR as RUssia’s Battlefield Losses Mount; RU Brigade Flees Bakhmut; Wagner Group Leader Gives RU Defenсe Minister an Ultimatum, Says RU Army is Fleeing, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine’s Counteroffensive Choice Between the Bold and the Very Bold; UKR Soldiers in Bakhmut Withstand RUssian Phosphorus Attack; UKR Military Says All 35 Drones RU Launched Overnight Destroyed; Putin Brutally Mocked Over Lone Vintage Tank in RU’s Victory Day Parade, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

UKRaine Downs Dozens of Drones Over Kyiv in RUssian Air Assault; Some Western Officials Asked UKR Not to Liberate Crimea; Wagner Mercenary Group a ‘shadow of what it once was’; Belarusian Battalion Recaptures Trenches From RUs on Donbas 'road of life', LIVE UPDATES and MORE

RUssians Change Priority of Capturing Bakhmut to Prepare for Counteroffensive; UKRaine Uses US Patriot Defense Systems to Shoot Down RU Hypersonic Missile; Video: RU Attacks Bakhmut With Phosphorous Munitions; A Soldier’s View of the Battlefields and Trenches of Bakhmut, LIVE UPDATES and MORE