Despite the driving rain, a few elderly residents wander into the streets of Stetskivka in northeast Ukraine to catch a yellow bus to go shopping in nearby Sumy, the regional capital. Nobody knows what could happen to the bus we take,

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

Russia says it has moved into the previously unscathed Dnipropetrovsk region to create a buffer zone, a claim Ukraine has dismissed.