The war in Ukraine has been going on for over a year with no end in sight. Our chief correspondent RamsaySky reports from the frontline, where he says although soldiers are fatigued morale is high. Live updates:
Ukraine has begun training"almost all" of its new, 28,000-strong assault brigades, who will be tasked with recapturing occupied territory, according to Ukrainian news outlet Pravda.
"The training will continue as long as necessary to produce combat-ready units of the national guard, state border guard service and national Police, all of which are now called the Offensive Guard."Training will take between two and four months, according to a statement by the Ukrainian National Guard's Facebook account on Thursday. Ukraine's spring counter-offensive is"not far off", according to the commander of its ground forces.
"It is necessary to gain time to accumulate reserves and start a counteroffensive, which is not far off." From the opposite side of the Dnipro River, Russian soldiers are almost constantly firing at the city. Only hours earlier she had been shaken to the core by a huge explosion in the residential complex car park three floors beneath her.Larysa was clearly in shock and very teary.Professor Michael Clarke talks to Sky News about why the city of Bakhmut is so important in the ongoing battle for the Donbas.There were cheers and chanting in the Lithuanian parliament as the nation celebrates 33 years of restored independence.
But she also turned her attention to Lithuania's neighbour, Ukraine, which is fighting against Russian aggression. On Thursday, Moldova’s national anti-corruption agency said officers carried out car searches of “couriers” for the Shor Party, and seized more than 150,000 euros in a case of alleged illegal party financing by an organised criminal group.
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