Putin claims Kremlin’s army is attempting to create a ‘buffer zone’ in region to prevent cross-border attacks by Kyiv’s forces
Destroyed artillery on a road near the town of Vovchansk, in the northeastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on Tuesday. Photograph: Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times“Our soldiers have now managed to take combat control of the border area where the Russia n occupiers entered,” he said in his nightly video address on Friday.’s lower house of parliament, said Russia n forces now controlled more than half of the town of Vovchansk, some 5km inside the border, Russia n state news agency Tass reported.
Mr Vodolatskiy was also quoted as saying that, once Vovchansk was secured, Russian forces would target the cities of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Pokrovsk in the neighbouring Donetsk region.Russia’s Kharkiv push appears to be a co-ordinated new offensive that includes testing Ukrainian defences in the Donetsk region further south, while also launching incursions in the northern Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
Ukrainian servicemen on the front line near the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk region. Photograph: Iryna Rybakova via AP Ukrainian authorities have evacuated more than 11,000 people from the region since the start of the offensive.
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