Kharkiv Oblast

I don't know that at the moment.

Uh, there's also reports that Russian forces are launching several small but new assaults in Kharkiv Oblast over the border, trying to probe Ukrainian lines, trying to gain territory.

They've been doing that for some time.

They've also been making some gains east of Kramatorsk, uh, along that front which is sort of north of Chasiv Yar, north of Bakhmut, where they've been fighting for years at huge cost.

This is stalemate.

Ukrainian troops have seen good progress in the Kharkiv Oblast with 12 square kilometers in gains following a series of counterattacks that recaptured the village of Voradny.

Again, this is just stalemate.

These few kilometers do not really count given the whole front line is over 1,000 kilometers long.

We get more with Bloomberg's Tony Halpin.

Well, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said it struck six thermal plants and a substation which supply electricity to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and its surroundings, as well as the northern Kharkiv region, and Ukraine's president is making clear that, um, these are the in- the very infrastructure elements that, uh, he says are covered by President Tr- Trump's, uh, truce, uh, on energy strikes.

Um, Russia hasn't elaborated on why it, uh, targeted these plants, uh, so intensively, but as you said, it, it declared it as a massive strike and, and seems very, um, content with the results.

And that's Bloomberg's Tony Halpin.

If Russia doesn't agree to energy ceasefire, we will respond.

Ukraine's state-run energy company, Neftegaz, said Monday that Russia attacked gas production facilities damaging key equipment in the eastern Kharkiv region.

The Kremlin has nothing to say yet on an energy truce, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to TASS.

But as Ukraine continues to respond to Russia's invasion with its own attacks on refineries, Zelensky increasingly risks running afoul of Trump.

The US president announced the initiative on Sunday, seeking to curb fuel costs ahead of November's midterm elections.

However, overnight, Russia struck the gas production infrastructure of a state-owned Ukrainian energy company in the Kharkiv region.

A fire has destroyed the Marché des Enfants Rouges, a popular food market in Paris' Marais district, dating back to 1615.

The market takes its name from the red uniforms worn by orphans at a nearby hospital until 1772.

But pretty crazy considering that this is kind of the focus of Russian offensive operations.

ISW said, quote, Russian forces intended to conduct a deep encirclement of the entire fortress belt from the Limon direction in the north and Doprapilia direction in the southwest, linking up in Kharkiv Oblast.

This wide encirclement would have largely completed the seizure of unoccupied Donetsk.

I mean, Russia's been trying these, like, big pincer movements for a while.