INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
advances toward the border, in what could mark a psychological blow for Kyiv as military and diplomatic pressures mount.The announcement
came after Moscow launched a new large-scale barrage of drones and missiles, including strikes on Ukrainian military recruitment centers
of the village of Dachne in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a key industrial and mining hub that has faced increased Russian aerial bombardment
in recent weeks.Russian forces have appeared to make crossing into the region a strategic priority in recent months, and further
claimed in May that its troops had entered Dnipropetrovsk, more than three years after launching its full-scale invasion.Dnipropetrovsk is
not among the five Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims as its own.
