Moscow's forces launched a new offensive on Kharkiv earlier this month, hoping to overextend Ukraine's limited resources, Kyiv officials have said.
Russia is gearing up for a fresh onslaught on northeastern Ukraine, Kyiv President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, as his country wrestles with sustained Russian pushes in the Kharkiv region.Moscow is amassing 'another group of troops near our border,' approximately 90 kilometers northwest of Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, the Ukrainian leader said in an address on Sunday.Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment via email.
'The enemy can at any moment, even if he does not have sufficient forces, try to do something similar, as is currently happening in the Kharkiv direction,' Demchenko said.The northern front in the Kharkiv region has likely now stabilized, the British Defense Ministry assessed on Sunday, adding that Russia's control over Kharkiv was 'fragmented and not joined-up.
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