As of 10 PM (according to the Kyiv time zone) on September 12, the front lines have recorded 122 combat encounters over the past day, with 48 occurring in the Kurakhove direction, according to the evening report from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russian forces are advancing in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take the whole of the Donbas, a region as big as half of Ohio.

Ukraine is more than a month into its shock cross-border offensive into the Kursk region, while Russia advances in the east of Ukraine.