KYIV (Reuters) -The Ukrainian military said on Saturday that it had pushed Russian forces back by about 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) on part of the Sumy front in northern Ukraine.

There was no immediate comment from Russia, which controls a little over 200 square kilometres in the region, according to Ukraine’s battlefield mapping project DeepState.

“Ukrainian soldiers continue active combat actions to destroy the enemy and liberate our settlements,” the Ukrainian general staff wrote on Facebook.

It added that fighting was raging near the villages of Oleksiivka and Yunakivka, which lie 5 km and 7 km from the Russian border respectively.

The ebb and flow of the battlefield lines have taken on greater political significance in recent days as Ukraine finds itself at another critical diplomati

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