THOUSANDS of civilians have fled their houses in Kharkiv as Ukrainian troops combat “fiercely” in opposition to Russian invaders.
Kyiv is valiantly repulsing the assaults of Vladimir Putin’s troops nearest launching a untouched attack at the Ukrainian area on Friday, threatening to evident a untouched entrance within the 27-month battle.
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Ukraine’s army stated on Sunday his nation’s forces have been dealing with a hard status in combating within the Kharkiv area, simply hours nearest Moscow showed the seize of 5 villages.
Russia has since stated it had captured 4 extra villages, in spite of Ukraine’s management no longer confirming Moscow’s beneficial properties, as Kyiv battles for regulate of the settlements.
“Units of the Defence Forces are fighting fierce defensive battles, the attempts of the Russian invaders to break through our defences have been stopped,” Colonel-Basic Oleksandr Syrskyi wrote at the Telegram app.
“The situation is difficult, but the Defence Forces of Ukraine are doing everything to hold defensive lines and positions, inflict damage on the enemy,” he added.
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The serious battles have pressured no less than one Ukrainian unit to take away within the Kharkiv area, capitulating extra land to Russian forces throughout much less defended settlements within the so-called contested grey zone” along the Russian border.
Thousands more civilians have now fled Russia’s renewed ground offensive in Ukraine’s northeast that has targeted towns and villages with a barrage of artillery and mortar fire, officials said Sunday.
At least 4,000 civilians have fled the Kharkiv region since Friday, when Moscow’s forces launched the operation, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said in a social media statement.
Heavy fighting raged Sunday along the northeast front line, where Russian forces attacked 27 settlements in the past 24 hours, he said.
Russia’s defence ministry announced the new gains a day after claiming that five villages had been seized in the region in a part of Ukraine from where Russian troops had been pushed back nearly two years ago.
The ministry said its forces had “complex deeply into the enemy defences” and taken villages including Gatishche, Krasnoye, Morokhovets and Oleinikovo.
The US-based Institute for the Study of War said it believed Moscow’s claims were accurate, based off geolocated footage showing the location of Russian forces.
It described the recent Russian gains as tactically significant.
But the Ukrainian army said it was managing to hold back further Russian advances.
At an evacuation point near the front line in Kharkiv region were groups of people who had been evacuated from around the town of Vovchansk, most of them elderly and disoriented.
“We weren’t moving to shed. House is house,” said 72-year-old Lyuda Zelenskaya, hugging a trembling cat named Zhora.
Liuba Konovalova, 70 said she had endured a “truly terrifying” night before her evacuation.
Around them, volunteers assisted evacuees towards a few wooden benches where they registered and received food before being evacuated toward Kharkiv, the regional capital.
“In overall, 4,073 crowd were evacuated,” Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov wrote on social media.
Ukraine has reported several civilians killed in the offensive.
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Synegubov said the latest casualty, a 63-year-old man, was killed by artillery fire in the village of Glyboke.
Oleksiy Kharkivsky, a senior police officer from Vovchansk helping to coordinate evacuations, said “a number of crowd” had been killed by shelling on Saturday and one person was found dead in rubble overnight.
“The town is repeatedly below fireplace,” he said.
“The whole lot within the town is being destroyed… You listen consistent explosions, artillery, mortars. The enemy is hitting town with the entirety they’ve,” he said.
Kharkivsky estimated that around 1,500 people had been evacuated or fled Vovchansk since Friday and there had been 32 drone strikes on the town over the past 24 hours.
He said evacuation teams had come under fire “repeatedly”.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Ukrainian troops had been carrying out counterattacks in the border villages.
“Disrupting Russian offensive plans is now our primary activity,” he said.
Troops must “go back the initiative to Ukraine”, the president insisted, again urging allies to speed up arms deliveries.
Ukrainian officials had warned for weeks that Moscow might try to attack its northeastern border regions, pressing its advantage as Ukraine struggles with delays in Western aid and manpower shortages.
Ukrainian soldiers said the Kremlin is using the usual Russian tactic by launching a disproportionate amount of fire and infantry assaults to exhaust their troops and firepower.
It comes after Russia stepped up attacks in March targeting energy infrastructure and settlements, which analysts predicted were a concerted effort by Moscow to shape conditions for an offensive.
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