'Ukraine army retreating everywhere': Putin at military meeting after Trump-Zelensky talks| Russia

Putin’s commanders brief him that the Southern Group has encircled Svyato-Pokrovske, is fighting through Konstantinivka (claiming about 40–45% control), and is pushing toward the larger Sloviansk–Druzhkivka–Kramatorsk cluster, while the Dnepr Group reports seizing Stepnohirsk, Lukyanivske, and nearly Primorske, advancing in and around Orikhiv and nearby villages and standing roughly 15 km from Zaporizhzhia’s southern outskirts; Putin and Defense Minister Belousov hail these gains as faster than planned and portray Ukrainian forces as retreating along the line as Russia pursues the staged “liberation” of Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson.