Ukraine war latest: Putin arrives in China for crucial talks on ‘new directions’ for cooperation as Russian military ‘advancing in all directions’

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What's the latest from the battlefield? Russian forces have continued to mount offensive manoeuvres across much of the front line. In the northeast, troops attacked Ukrainian positions on the Kupiansk front 30 times and the Lyman front five times, reported Ukrainska Pravda. In central eastern areas, there were another 109 attempts to break through Ukrainian defences across the Sivershchyna, Kramatorsk, Pokrovsk, Vremivka and Kuakhove fronts. To the south, Russian soldiers continued to try and drive Ukrainian forces from the Dnipro River's east bank. Here are the latest updates from governors in some of the major Ukrainian regions on the frontline....