Kiev. President Vladimir Putin celebrated this Wednesday the Russian advances in Kharkiv and that his forces retook a symbolic city in southern Ukraine, which was one of many solely victories of kyiv’s failed counteroffensive final yr.
Moscow’s forces proceed to advance on the entrance, particularly within the Kharkiv area (northeast) the place they launched an offensive on Could 10.
“Day by day, always, our troops are bettering their positions on all fronts,” Putin informed the nation’s army commanders, together with the brand new Protection Minister, Andrei Belousov, in keeping with televised pictures.
The pinnacle of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, introduced throughout his go to to kyiv army help for Ukraine and declared that Washington didn’t explicitly prohibit the nation from utilizing Western weapons to assault Russian territory.
Confronted with the Russian push, President Volodymir Zelensky’s spokesman introduced the choice to ship reinforcements to Kharkiv and the cancellation of the president’s upcoming worldwide journeys, together with one to Madrid this Friday.
The Ukrainian military stated Wednesday that it needed to withdraw from some areas of the northern entrance “close to Lukiantsi and Vovchansk, in response to enemy hearth and an infantry assault.”
“Our items maneuvered within the course of extra favorable positions,” stated the spokesman for the forces within the area, Nazar Voloshin.
Shortly after, the Russian military claimed duty for taking up the city of Lukiantsi and the neighboring city of Gliboke.
Russia additionally claimed to have taken the city of Robotine in southern Ukraine, one of many few that the Kiev military managed to recuperate in August, in its counteroffensive in the summertime of 2023.
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– 2024-05-24 09:51:49
