Ukraine war: Putin says troops advancing in Kharkiv to create a 'buffer-zone' | WION

the Russian Ukraine's battle along the KV region is picked up pace Moscow claims that it has managed to capture Village near vchan in the KV region where it launched a surprise offensive last week as Russian troops continue with their crossb offensive into Ukraine's North and Northeast the Govern of KV has said that there has been a record-breaking air raid alert due to the constant shelling by the invading Russian forces now this alert lasted for 16 and a half hours near the evacuated civilians Gathering point in the W chance Direction Russia launched A Renewed defensive in W chance and lipit on the 10th of May kav's border communities came under heavy Russian shelling and air strikes and at least about three people reportedly were killed and 28 others were injured as many as six people including four doctors one civilian and the head of the military Administration also sustained some serious injuries in wol Chon we had a record-breaking missile alert it lasted for 16 hours and 33 minutes continuously during the day and it's not just an alert it's accompanied by constant attacks now the situation has been pretty volatile amidst the intensifying Russian attacks since the past 2 days police has said that the entire town has been reduced to rubble and officers have scrambled to evacuate the local residents from Villages surrounding W CHS that came under constant shelling 9,000 people were evacuated from the front lines and the nearby areas this week as the Russian forces attempted to penetrate into Ukraine's defenses Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has said that its troops have managed to repel the attacks that are still holding out the Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his troops are advancing in the KV region and were creating this kind of a buffer zone to protect the Russian border regions capturing the city of KV itself is not part of Russia's current plan or at least that is what the Russian President Vladimir Putin has said according to reports that have come in the Russian North Military grouping has captured nearly about 12 settlements since launching the new ground offensive in KV the Russia's military claims to have down more than 100 Ukrainian drones in the Black Sea in the 2014 anex Crimean region now the attack was Ukraine's largest aial offensive in weeks to slow the Russian advances along the front lines the moscow's defense Ministry also released some footage showing Russian war planes destroying six sea drones in the Black Sea the Ukrainian drone raids on Crimea marked kev's attempt to strike back during moscow's offensive in northeastern Ukraine as its troops are heavily outnumbered and outgunned meanwhile starting from the 18th of May Ukraine will lift a temporary ban on that it imposed on Consular services for for military age men living abroad hundreds of thousands of military age Ukrainian men are living abroad while the country is facing an acute shortage of troops to help it defend itself against the Russian fullscale invasion for all the latest news download the Von app And subscribe to our YouTube channel

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Published: Sat May 18 2024