Russia says pushing offensive into Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region

Above, a Ukrainian tank drives on a road past buildings damaged by shelling in a village in the Dnipropetrovsk region on March 16, 2025. (AFP)

• A tank unit had ‘reached the western border of the Donetsk People’s Republic and are continuing to develop an offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region’

MOSCOW: Russia said Sunday it was pushing into Ukraine’s eastern Dnipropetrovsk region in a significant territorial escalation of its three-year military campaign.

The defense ministry said forces from a tank unit had “reached the western border of the Donetsk People’s Republic and are continuing to develop an offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region.”