President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Friday that Ukrainian forces had secured “fight management” of areas the place Russian troops carried out a raid this month within the northern Kharkiv area.
“Our troopers have now managed to take fight management of the border space the place the Russian occupiers entered,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly video tackle.
Zelenskyy’s feedback, after holding a gathering of navy and regional officers in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, seemed to be at odds with feedback from Russian officers.
Viktor Vodolatskiy, a member of the decrease home of parliament of Russia’s State Duma, was quoted by the Tass information company as saying that Russian forces managed greater than half of the territory of town of Vovchansk, 5 kilometers (three miles) inside of the border.
Vodolatskiy was quoted as saying that when Vovchansk was secured, Russian forces would assault three cities in Ukraine’s jap Donetsk area: Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Pokrovsk.
Reuters couldn’t independently confirm both aspect’s battlefield accounts.
Russian forces superior this month towards the border areas of Ukraine’s Kharkiv area and Russia’s Protection Ministry mentioned they’d secured management of about 12 settlements.
Zelenskyy and different Ukrainian officers had reported successes in “stabilizing” the realm.
The Basic Workers of the Ukrainian military, in its night report on Friday, mentioned the scenario in Vovchansk was “tense however managed by the protection forces.”
“The Russian military at this time launched aerial terror towards this metropolis: eight guided bombs hit town,” he mentioned. Assaults had been launched towards at the very least two different settlements north of Kharkiv.
An in a single day report from the Basic Workers mentioned Ukrainian forces had repelled 10 Russian assaults within the space, together with round Vovchansk.
He additionally famous that Russian forces had achieved “partial success” in areas close to Kupiansk, additional east within the Kharkiv area, and within the Pokrovsk sector, the place heavy combating has occurred additional south within the Donetsk area.
Ukrainian navy bloggers mentioned that Ukrainian troops had been holding their positions round Vovchansk and that Russian forces had been utilizing fewer infantry within the space and as an alternative firing from a distance, with restricted accuracy.