During an English-language interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denied that Russia has erred in striking civilian targets in Ukraine, including hospitals, schools and American-owned factories that purport to build electronics for personal consumption.

But Ukrainian military spokesperson Viktor Trehubov said Kyiv's forces had scored front-line successes, keeping Russian troops from seizing targets in Donetsk region and halting further advances into Dnipropetrovsk region. In one area, he said, Kyiv's troops had surrounded Russian units.

The Russian military has pierced pockets of Ukraine’s front lines in the eastern Donetsk region this week, pushing forward just days before Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with

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Defending against Russia’s unlawful aggression is not the only way that Ukrainians fight for their future. Lately, Ukraine’s people have also had to pressure their government in matters of domestic politics.

Poland has frequently scrambled jets to react to waves of Russian aerial attacks on its neighbor throughout the more than three-and-a-half years of full-scale war. Sweden, NATO's newest member, currently has fighter jets stationed in northern Poland for its turn of the alliance's air policing mission.

Unfortunately, the Trump administration said the departure of Ayatollah Khamenei is not an objective of U.S. policy, just as former President Barack Obama had taken it off the table when the Iranian masses were beseeching the U.S. for moral and political, not military, support — a decision Obama says he now regrets.

Welcome to our live blog tracking the latest news from Russia Ukraine. Get real-time updates on Russia-Ukraine war, policy decisions, legislative actions, headline-grabbing statements and various other developments happening in the both countries.