The warning from Kharkiv's governor Oleh Syniehubov comes as a Ukrainian soldier takes the unusual step of publicly criticising Ukraine's preparations to stop Russia from pushing into the northeast of the country in a Facebook post, writing: 'We could die and no one will hear the truth.
Russia was able to open a new front in northeastern Ukraine because of delays in the supply of Western weapons to the frontline, the head of the region under attack has claimed. Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of Kharkiv, rejected criticism about an alleged lack of Ukrainian fortifications on a long border shared with Russia, insisting that defences are strong - even as Russian forces capture multiple villages and fierce fighting rages.
As for whether he thought that the slowness of allies in the West to resupply Ukrainian troops with weapons and ammunition had left Ukraine exposed, he said: 'Yes.' He added: 'We feel it, and our soldiers on the battlefield feel it. We have been conducting a defensive operation for practically six months, awaiting new supplies. And, of course, the enemy outweighs us in armaments - not in quality but in quantity.
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