Kyiv: UkraineTop commanders warned on Friday of “fierce fighting” ahead on a new front in the northeastern war Kharkiv While serving as President of Russia Vladimir Putin explain Moscow Carving a “buffer“In the area.
Russian army The attack on the northern part of the Kharkiv region on Friday, a 10-kilometer offensive, left Kiev’s army, which has been struggling to hold a vast frontline nearly 27 months since the invasion, off-balance and outnumbered.
Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said the attack expanded the combat zone by about 70 kilometers, Russia The invasion was launched in advance after “noting the deployment of our troops.”
“We know there will be fierce fighting and the enemy is preparing for it,” the head of Ukraine’s armed forces wrote in a statement on the Telegram app.
Russian forces have taken the initiative on the battlefield and are slowly advancing eastward, taking advantage of Ukraine’s manpower shortages and months of delays in Western weapons supplies.
During a state visit to China, Putin said that Russia was establishing a “buffer zone” in northeastern Ukraine to protect its border areas, but he said that occupying Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv was not part of the current plan. .
In the face of Russian air strikes throughout the war, Kiev has been busy developing drones and missiles and launching attacks on installations in Russia it says are used to support the war, as well as bombing Ukrainian towns and power facilities.
The mayor of Kharkiv said that a Russian missile attack in the city on Friday killed two people and injured 25 others.
Putin told a news conference in China that the attack on the Kharkiv region was a response to Kiev’s shelling of Belgorod and other Russian border areas, where he said civilians had died.
“They are shooting directly into the city center, into residential areas. I say publicly that if this continues, we will be forced to create a safety zone, a buffer zone. That’s what we are doing,” he said.
Russian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainian media in comments on Friday that although Ukrainian forces had “stabilized” the front line, Russian troops were still able to advance 10 kilometers at one point in the Kharkiv region.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Moscow’s troops had captured 12 villages in the incursion.
Eastern Front
Data compiled by Ukraine’s General Staff show that Russia is launching its most intense attacks in the eastern Donetsk region, with the Pokrovsk front facing the most frequent attacks in recent days.
Silsky said the Ukrainian army was also preparing defensive lines in response to a possible Russian attack on Ukraine. Samui areawhich will mark another front more than 100 kilometers north of Kharkiv.
Kiev says Russia has small troops nearby Amount area.
“We noticed that the actions of the Russian army are systematic,” said Vladimir Atyuk, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration.
“In fact, shelling continues along the entire border, with an intensity of 200 to 400 explosions per day. The intensity of enemy sabotage groups has increased,” he said.
The expanding front line is particularly challenging for Ukraine at a time when its troops need supplies.
Zelensky signed a law on Friday allowing certain categories of criminals to serve in the military, the parliament website showed.
Kiev officials said the move would only provide up to 20,000 people who could join the army. Zelensky also signed a law imposing tougher fines for evading military service.
Ukraine launched an unusually large wave of overnight drone strikes that killed two people in the Belgorod region and set fire to an oil refinery in Tuapse on the Black Sea, Russian officials said on Friday.
Ukrainian intelligence sources said the targets included a substation in occupied Crimea, an oil depot and train station in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and the Tuapse refinery.
Russia carried out long-range attacks on Ukraine overnight, but the Kiev military said that Russia shot down all 20 drones over the Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnitsa, Odessa and Nikolaev regions .
Separately, U.S. commercial satellite company Maxar said images showed that Ukraine carried out a long-range strike on the Moscow-controlled Belbek Air Force Base in Crimea this week, destroying three Russian warplanes and a fuel facility near its main runway.
Russian army The attack on the northern part of the Kharkiv region on Friday, a 10-kilometer offensive, left Kiev’s army, which has been struggling to hold a vast frontline nearly 27 months since the invasion, off-balance and outnumbered.
Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said the attack expanded the combat zone by about 70 kilometers, Russia The invasion was launched in advance after “noting the deployment of our troops.”
“We know there will be fierce fighting and the enemy is preparing for it,” the head of Ukraine’s armed forces wrote in a statement on the Telegram app.
Russian forces have taken the initiative on the battlefield and are slowly advancing eastward, taking advantage of Ukraine’s manpower shortages and months of delays in Western weapons supplies.
During a state visit to China, Putin said that Russia was establishing a “buffer zone” in northeastern Ukraine to protect its border areas, but he said that occupying Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv was not part of the current plan. .
In the face of Russian air strikes throughout the war, Kiev has been busy developing drones and missiles and launching attacks on installations in Russia it says are used to support the war, as well as bombing Ukrainian towns and power facilities.
The mayor of Kharkiv said that a Russian missile attack in the city on Friday killed two people and injured 25 others.
Putin told a news conference in China that the attack on the Kharkiv region was a response to Kiev’s shelling of Belgorod and other Russian border areas, where he said civilians had died.
“They are shooting directly into the city center, into residential areas. I say publicly that if this continues, we will be forced to create a safety zone, a buffer zone. That’s what we are doing,” he said.
Russian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainian media in comments on Friday that although Ukrainian forces had “stabilized” the front line, Russian troops were still able to advance 10 kilometers at one point in the Kharkiv region.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Moscow’s troops had captured 12 villages in the incursion.
Eastern Front
Data compiled by Ukraine’s General Staff show that Russia is launching its most intense attacks in the eastern Donetsk region, with the Pokrovsk front facing the most frequent attacks in recent days.
Silsky said the Ukrainian army was also preparing defensive lines in response to a possible Russian attack on Ukraine. Samui areawhich will mark another front more than 100 kilometers north of Kharkiv.
Kiev says Russia has small troops nearby Amount area.
“We noticed that the actions of the Russian army are systematic,” said Vladimir Atyuk, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration.
“In fact, shelling continues along the entire border, with an intensity of 200 to 400 explosions per day. The intensity of enemy sabotage groups has increased,” he said.
The expanding front line is particularly challenging for Ukraine at a time when its troops need supplies.
Zelensky signed a law on Friday allowing certain categories of criminals to serve in the military, the parliament website showed.
Kiev officials said the move would only provide up to 20,000 people who could join the army. Zelensky also signed a law imposing tougher fines for evading military service.
Ukraine launched an unusually large wave of overnight drone strikes that killed two people in the Belgorod region and set fire to an oil refinery in Tuapse on the Black Sea, Russian officials said on Friday.
Ukrainian intelligence sources said the targets included a substation in occupied Crimea, an oil depot and train station in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and the Tuapse refinery.
Russia carried out long-range attacks on Ukraine overnight, but the Kiev military said that Russia shot down all 20 drones over the Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnitsa, Odessa and Nikolaev regions .
Separately, U.S. commercial satellite company Maxar said images showed that Ukraine carried out a long-range strike on the Moscow-controlled Belbek Air Force Base in Crimea this week, destroying three Russian warplanes and a fuel facility near its main runway.
