According to authorities, thousands more residents have fled Russia’s renewed surface offensive in the northeast of Ukraine, which has fired a barrage of cement and artillery at towns and villages. At least one Russian system has been forced to leave the Kharkiv region, capitulating more area to Russian troops in the so-called “gray area” along the Russian border due to the intense fighting.
By Sunday evening, the city of Vovchansk, among the largest in the east with a pre- war inhabitants of 17, 000, emerged as a focal point in the fight. The Kharkiv local police’s nose, Volodymyr Tymoshko, claimed that Russian troops were approaching from three directions on the city’s fringes.
At least 4, 000 residents have fled the Kharkiv region since Friday, when Moscow’s makes launched the activity, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said. Large fighting raged Sunday along the east front, where Russian troops attacked 27 towns in the past 24 time, he said. According to experts, the Russian force is intended to evade the supply of promised Western weapons before it can hit the front. Following Russia’s increased attacks on energy-related facilities and towns in March, this is a significant development.
Five settlements reportedly seized on Saturday, in addition to five reported villages that were reportedly taken on Sunday, were reported to have been in five villages along Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, according to the Russian defense ministry, which announced on Sunday that its troops had taken four villages along the border. Ukraine’s administration has no confirmed Moscow’s profits. But Tymoshko said that Strilecha, Pylna and Borsivika were under Soviet activity. AP
