10 things you need to know today: October 4, 2022

Ukrainian forces break through Russian lines in southern Kherson, Trump sues CNN for defamation, and more

Ukrainian Grad rocket launcher in southern Ukraine
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1. Ukraine penetrates Russian lines in southern Kherson

Ukrainian forces continued to push into Ukrainian territory formerly occupied by Russia on Monday, expanding their counteroffensive in the east and puncturing Russian defenses in the southern Kherson region, one of the four areas Russia is trying to illegally annex. Ukraine's gains were so clear that Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov uncharacteristically acknowledged that "the enemy managed to forge deep into our defenses" using "numerically superior tank units," although he said Russian troops inflicted major losses in return. Russia's withdrawal from the former stronghold of Lyman in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, also targeted by Moscow for annexation, prompted rare ridicule of the Kremlin's war effort by two powerful allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.