Fighting stops ahead of UN visit, Ukraine says

Ukrainian forces said on Thursday they repelled a Russian attack in the southern Kherson region, ahead of a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later Thursday in the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine. “Russian forces have made only minimal advances, and in some cases we have advanced since last month,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a video.