What impact could Ukraine's regaining of territory have?

Ukrainian forces are said to have taken back some territory in the south

As Qazet.az been reporting, Ukrainian forces are said to have taken back some territory in the south of the country.

Justin Bronk from the UK defence and security think tank the Royal United Services Institute, tells that it's a strategy that could force Moscow to change its tactics.

"The Russians have quite visibly failed to take the whole of Ukraine across multiple positions of advance," he says. "So now they are trying to pull their resources back and consolidate them and concentrate them on one push at a time - in particular around Mariupol and the south."

He says if the Russians take Mariupol, which has been besieged for weeks and is getting low on supplies, then they may look to redistribute troops and ammunition, first to the Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and then perhaps to the north-eastern city of Kharkiv.