This week saw Russian forces continue to advance on Severodonetsk, gaining control of most of the Luhansk city on Tuesday.Fierce fighting saw Ukraine launch successful counterattacks, however, and on Friday which marked 100 days since the start of the war Ukrainian officials said they'd recaptured one fifth previously lost. On Sunday, the regional gov. of Luhansk said the city is "now, more or less, divided in half." On Saturday, Russia was reported to be reinforcing its forces and using artillery in "assault operations" in the city. Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Russia will continue fighting until all its goals have been achieved, particularly in relation to the Donbas region. This comes after Zelenskyy on Thursday said Russia now controls 20% of the country.Meanwhile, after leaked reports suggested that Germany had broken with Western policy and failed to provide heavy weapons promised to Ukraine, the German chancellor said that the IRIS-T and modern air defenseradar systems will be shipped to Ukraine, while US Pres. Biden confirmed plans to provide Ukraine with more advanced rocket systems and munitions in a $700M tranche of security assistance.