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In recent days Ukraine has re-taken much of previously Russian-occupied territory. President Volodymyr Zelensky said his forces were fortifying their hold over 8,000 sq km in the Kharkiv region.

Russian troops have been forced to retreat. Sergei Markov, former member of the Russian State Duma for President Putin鈥檚 party, based in Moscow, says it is "a very big victory of the Ukrainian army which took 5% of the territories taken by Russian army before" and that these developments could lead to "escalation of war".

(Photo: Woman stands outside her building partially destroyed by a Russian missile attack in the centre of Kharkiv, Ukraine on September 13, 2022. Credit: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)