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Associated Press
Ukraine's convicts offered release at a high price: Joining the fight against Russia
Ukraine is expanding the draft to cope with acute battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion. And its recruiting efforts have turned, for the first time, to the country’s prison population.

Although Ukraine does not announce any details of troop deployment numbers or casualties, frontline commanders openly acknowledge that they are facing serious manpower problems
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/ukraines-convicts-offered-release-high-051017150.html

Associated Press
Ukraine’s army retreats from positions as Russia gets closer to seizing strategically important town
The Ukrainian army retreated from a northeastern neighborhood in the town, Nazar Voloshyn, the spokesperson for the Khortytsia ground forces formation, told The Associated Press in a written message Thursday.

Ukraine's defensive positions in the town were “destroyed,” he said, adding that there was a threat of serious casualties if troops remained in the area and that Russia did not leave “a single intact building.”
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-army-retreats-positions-russia-102608897.html

Ukrainian forces withdraw from part of strategic town in eastern Donetsk region
NEWS WIRES Thu 4 July 2024 at 11:44 am CEST
"It became impractical to hold the canal neighbourhood after the enemy entered it, because it threatened the lives and health of our servicemen and the positions of our defenders were destroyed," military spokesman Nazar Voloshyn told Ukrainian television.

"The command decided to pull back to more protected and prepared positions, but even there the enemy does not stop its active combat actions," he said.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-forces-withdraw-part-strategic-094404071.html

The Telegraph
Zelensky U-turns as he invites Russia to attend peace summit without giving up land
Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Russia to the next peace summit despite previously saying it could only join if it relinquished land in Ukraine.
On Wednesday, Mr Zelensky appeared to soften his stance, acknowledging the possibility of a Russian delegation attending.
“If the second peace summit has a plan to end the war, and we have more countries, we will organise it and Russian representatives must be present. Who? We will see,” Mr Zelensky told Bloomberg News.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/zelenskyy-u-turns-invites-russia-144349384.html

New York. Russian troops have advanced and broken through to Petrovskaya Hill in New York. Battles are ongoing. Advancement to a depth of 650 meters.

The Ukrainian military says its army has retreated from a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar in the eastern Donetsk region, a strategically important town where Russian forces recently captured a district.

The military confirmed on Thursday that it had fallen back from the town’s Kanal district, saying “the enemy had entered”, destroying “defenders’ positions” and threatening “the lives and wellbeing of our soldiers”.

“The command decided to retreat to better protected and prepared positions,” said a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s Khortytsia ground forces formation, reporting the withdrawal on state-run television.