Ukraine soldiers at the Siverskyi Donets river across from the war-damaged Monastery of the Caves in Sviatohirsk, eastern Ukraine. Photograph: Nicole Tung/The New York Times Kyiv’s troops have liberated more of eastern and southeastern Ukraine, as Russia admitted it was unclear how much of its neighbour’s territory it now claimed to possess following a Kremlin annexation decree that drew international condemnation. Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that “using numerically superior tank units in the direction of Zolota Balka, Oleksandrivka, the enemy managed to penetrate deep into our defences,” in reference to combat in the Kherson region of southeastern...