It’s mid-afternoon in Kyiv. Here’s what you need to know

Ukraine’s counteroffensive has been underway for months. While its progress has not been as swift and decisive as initially hoped, Kyiv’s forces have begun to make progress – especially in the south – after breaching the first line of Russia’s heavily fortified defenses at a number of locations.

Trench by trench, inch by inch, Ukraine is trying to reclaim the territory occupied by Moscow. To help make sense of the grueling, grinding conflict, CNN has been taking a look at the key battles of the latest phase of the war – and today has published its visual guide to Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

Meanwhile, Russia has launched a deadly missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.

Here are the latest developments:

• Kryvyi Rih strike: A Russian missile attack on the center of Kryvyi Rih killed one person and injured a further 54 people on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Minister Ihor Klymenko confirmed that the person killed was a police officer. Three more police officers were rescued from the rubble, Klymenko said, and they remain in serious condition. Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
• Ukrainian military draft: Ukrainian women with a medical education must register at military enlistment offices from the start of October, Ukraine’s Armed Forces announced Thursday. “All medical women, these are doctors, nurses, dentists, midwives, pharmacists, ages 18 to 60, will be required to register,” the statement said. These women, like Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 60, will have to remain in Ukraine in the event that they are called up.
• Ukrainian POWs tortured: About 90% of Ukrainian prisoners of war have been subjected to torture, rape and other forms of inhumane treatment, according to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin. Ukraine found “evidence of these horrors in all the liberated territories,” Kostin said Thursday. His report found 11 torture chambers in Kherson region, and claimed that more than 700 victims had been identified in Kharkiv region. So far, 35 people have been convicted of torture, he said.
• Russia weaponizing food: European Union Council President Charles Michel accused Russia of “weaponizing food” and “hurting the most vulnerable,” in comments made at a press conference in India ahead of the G20 summit beginning this weekend. Michel called Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea grain deal as “scandalous,” and highlighted that more than 250 million people face acute food insecurity worldwide, which Russia’s termination of the grain deal and subsequent bombardment of Ukraine’s ports will make worse.
• Cuba arrests traffickers: Cuban authorities arrested 17 people linked to a human trafficking network operating from Russia that it alleges has recruited Cuban citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine, Cuban state media reported Thursday. The Cuban foreign affairs ministry, which first revealed the operations of the trafficking ring on Monday, said the human trafficking network had been dismantled.

Here's the latest map of control: