Ukraine war briefing: Focus swings to Kharkiv as Russia mounts assaults
The Guardian - 2024-05-11T00:29:13.000Z

Villages come under heavy fire, prompting evacuations; Ukrainians hit more Russian-controlled oil refineries. What we know on day 808Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the north-east, Dan Sabbagh and Andrew Roth report. There were also reports of fighting in the border villages of Strilecha, Pylna and Borysivka farther west, and that Russian forces had advanced by about 1km around the border town of Vovchansk. Volodomyr Zelenskiy,...

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