Russia is advancing around Kostyantynivka and in the Sumy region with small, fast-moving units as both sides try a new tactic of using motorcycles and civilian cars to quickly cross open terrain.

Ukraine's army is managing to contain the current Russian military offensive in the north-eastern region of Sumy, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. "We are in the process of levelling the position.

Despite the driving rain, a few elderly residents wander into the streets of Stetskivka in northeast Ukraine to catch a yellow bus to go shopping in nearby Sumy, the regional capital. Nobody knows what could happen to the bus we take,