Ukraine’s forces remain on the defensive in the eastern Donbas region – as it happened

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Ukraine is losing territories and struggling to regain them since Russia began concentrating its military attacks on the country's east, Ukrainian MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintzadze has said.

Klympush-Tsintzadze told Sky News that she hopes the military situation in eastern Ukraine will change soon. Unfortunately, at this particular moment, Russia has gathered all this military capacity in the in the east of the country.