Ukraine Update: Russia drives toward Kharkiv as Ukraine tries to slow it down
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Ukraine says Russia is trying to break through its defenses in northeastern Kharkiv region
Ukraine rushed reinforcements to its northeastern Kharkiv region on Friday to hold off a Russian attempt to breach local defenses, authorities said, signaling a tactical switch in the war by Moscow that Ukrainian officials had been expecting for weeks. Kharkiv's regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said intense overnight shelling targeted Vovchansk,
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Russia tries to breach Ukraine's defenses in the Kharkiv region. Feint, or all-out assault?
The assault began at dawn. Defenders rushed in reinforcements. Pitched fighting raged. Ukraine and its allies sought Friday to discern whether Russian forces were opening a major new war front, more than two years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its sovereign neighbor. “There is a fierce battle,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters in the capital, Kyiv, hours after Russian troops launched an armored ground offensive in northeastern Ukraine, near the country’s...
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Ukraine Says Russia Trying To Break Through Defenses In Northeastern Kharkiv Region
Ukraine rushed reinforcements to its northeastern Kharkiv region to hold off a Russian attempt to breach local defenses, authorities said, a tactical switch by Moscow that Ukrainian officials have been expecting for weeks as the war stretches into its third year. Intense nighttime shelling targeted Vovchansk, in the Kharkiv region and less than 5 kilometers […]