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Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Soldiers walk along the bed of the Dnipro River in Novovorontsovka in rescue and relief efforts for victims of the Kakhovka dam destruction. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian Ukrainian forces have moved along both sides of the river, southwards from the town of Velyka Novosilka, declaring the liberation of a string of villages: Blahodatne on the east bank; and Neskuchne, Makarivka and Storozheve on the west side. On Monday night, Ukraine’s deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, said three other settlements further west along the frontline – Novodarivka, Levadne in eastern Zaporizhzhia, and Lobkove in western Zaporizhzhia – had also been taken by Ukrainian forces. 01:08 Ukraine claims to have recaptured Donetsk village of Storozheve in counteroffensive – video The armed forces have published pictures of their units holding up flags in what were claimed to be the recaptured villages. The claims could not be independently verified, but Russian military bloggers confirmed the Ukrainian advance and reported heavy fighting overnight and on Monday morning for the next village along, Urozhaine, on the east bank of the river, straddling the road south-east towards Mariupol. Valeriy Shershen, a Ukrainian military spokesperson for that sector of the front, told the Ukrainska Pravda news agency that a dam upstream al...

After dark on Friday, Mr. Zelensky released a video of himself standing in front of the presidential headquarters in central Kyiv with his chief of staff, the country’s prime minister, and the parliament majority leader. “We are all here, defending our independence and our state. And that’s how it will be,” he said, as Russian media spread rumors of him having fled the city. The Ontario government has instructed the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, a monopoly wine-and-spirits retailer that bills itself as one of the world’s biggest buyers of alcohol, to remove Russian vodka from its shelves. “Ontario joins Canada’s allies in condemning the Russian government’s act of aggression against the Ukrainian people,” said the province’s finance minister, Peter Bethlenfalvy. Ontario is Canada’s most-populous province, accounting for nearly 40% of the country’s population. Liquor-retail monopolies in the east-coast provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador as well as Nova Scotia also started Friday to remove Russian spirits. Quebec's liquor-retail agency, Société des Alcools du Québec, or SAQ, said via its Twitter account that it has no plans to restock the 10 Russian products it currently carries on its shelves. "It is not the SAQ's role to play politics," it said. In Canada, the provinces have jurisdiction over sales of wine, beer and spirits. Data from Statistics Canada indicated that provincial liquor authorities imported over 700 million Canadian dollars, or the equivalent of $546 ...

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