2024-05-10 20:28:19
Ukraine“>Russia launched a ground attack yesterday in the Kharkiv region
, in northeastern Ukraine. This area has not been the target of such attacks since the withdrawal of Kremlin troops from almost the entire Kharkiv region against counterattacks from Ukraine in the fall of 2022. If the scale of this new Russian operation is not yet clear. night, Ukraine has been fearing an attack in the region for weeks. Here is a map to visualize the attacks of the last 24 hours.
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The Ukrainian General Staff indicated that Russia carried out five ground attacks near the towns of Krasné, Morokhovets and Oliinykové, which are on the border with Russia, and a little further east near Gatyshche. Several Russian air attacks targeted targets in the area, including the town of Vovchansk, also on the border with a population of 3,000 inhabitants. Moscow wants to create a “buffer zone” in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions to prevent kyiv from hitting the Belgorod region, in Russia, which is very regularly targeted.
Earlier, in the middle of the day, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that around 5 am the enemy tried to “break through” the defense lines “using armored vehicles”. The ministry declared that these attacks had been “repulsed” but that “fighting of varying intensity” continued and reserve units were deployed to “reinforce” the “defense” of the area.
According to the local prosecutor’s office, strikes killed at least two civilians and injured four others during the day in Vovchansk, adding that another civilian was killed during a strike in the town of Cherkaski Tychky, north of Kharkiv. Civilian evacuations were ordered around Vovchansk. Two civilians were also killed by an enemy artillery strike near the town of Pokrovsk, which is still in the Donetsk region.
Russian aggression increases
Currently, Russia occupies 17.53% of the territory of Ukraine compared to 7% before the beginning of the Russian invasion at the end of February 2022. From the end of February 2024, the Russian army is on the offensive but the gains of the Territories are over one month . however, the amount is small, with only 55 km² hit by the Russians in one month in March 2024 and 86 km² in April 2024.
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