#Kharkiv

Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed Ukrainian forces were “surrounded” in Kupiansk and invited journalists to see it—but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy showed up there himself, as Ukrainian forces carried out a successful counteroffensive in the city.

Vladimir Putin’s generals briefed him on the “capture” of two Ukrainian cities this weekend—assertions quickly contradicted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and OSINT analysts, whose battlefield maps show the towns remain contested and far from the sweeping advances Moscow claims.