This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peachan in the early hours of Monday 12 June.

These are our main stories.

Ukraine says its counteroffensive against Russian troops is making progress with several

villages in the southeast now liberated.

The former First Minister of Scotland is arrested and then released during an investigation

into the finances of the Scottish National Party.

This year in 2023 we've had more civilian scale in Haiti than in Ukraine.

Businesses, schools, hospitals or closing or going back up.

Fresh calls intervention in Haiti amid fears the country is heading for civil war.

Also in this podcast he wins the French Open but is Novak Djokovic the greatest of all

time.

And…

Was this the sound hunters were using whistles to make 12,000 years ago?

Let's start in Ukraine though where we've seen the initial results of the much talked

off counteroffensive with Ukrainian troops saying they've taken back control of three

villages in the Russians in the southeast.

Yuri Sark, who advises Ukraine's Defence Minister, spoke to BBC News after the recapture

of one of them, Blahher Dattne.

We are fighting inj by inj for us every small village is part of Ukraine.

In every small village Ukrainians live right so we want to give them back their normal

life.

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