Earlier, DeepState reported Russian gains on the Novopavlivka front in Donetsk Oblast. On June 13, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces halted Russian advances in Sumy Oblast, with fighting confined to a 7-kilometer depth from the border,

Ukraine's president said that troops maintained their defensive lines along more than 1,000 kilometers of the front.

Russia has intensified attacks in Ukraine’s northeast, announcing plans to create a so-called ‘buffer zone’ in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.