Ukraine makes gains near Kharkiv +++ Attacks on Russian soil | Ukraine latest

Ukraine makes gains near Kharkiv +++ Attacks on Russian soil | Ukraine latest
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A thousand bodies have been recovered near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in recent days, with many of the killings possibly amounting to war crimes amid the Russian invasion, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. “The scale of unlawful killings, including indicia of summary executions in areas to the north of Kyiv, is shocking,” Bachelet told the Geneva-based Human Rights Council via video link. The council will decide on Thursday whether to launch an official probe into events that occurred in Kyiv and other regions in February and March while Russian troops were occupying the areas. Russia has denied targeting civilians during what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine aimed only at “de-militarizing” and “de-Nazifying” the country. Russian energy giant Gazprom says gas to Europe transiting through Ukraine went down by a third on Thursday. Gazprom told the Interfax news agency that supplies transiting Ukraine were at 50.6 million cubic meters in total, compared to 72 million cubic meters the day before. This comes after Kyiv said it would suspend flows of Russian gas through the eastern Sokhranivka hub on Wednesday on grounds the plant was no longer under Ukrainian control. Ukraine has succeeded in recapturing a number of towns and villages toward the Russian border north of its second city of Kharkiv after Moscow has reportedly withdrawn several units following heavy losses, the British Ministry of Defence has said. The current focus of Russian troops on the eastern Donbas regions means that remaining units deployed in the Kharkiv region are “vulnerable to the mobile, and highly motivated, Ukrainian counterattacking force,” according to the intelligence update posted on Twitter. “The withdrawal of Russian forces from the Kharkiv Oblast is a tacit recognition of Russia’s inability to capture key Ukrainian cities where they expected limited resistance from the population,” it says. It said the Russian troops would “likely deploy to the eastern bank of the Siverskyi Donets River, forming a blocking force to protect the western flank of Russia’s main force concentration and main supply routes for operations in the vicinity of Izium.” Kharkiv, situated just 40 km (25 miles) south of the border to Russia, was an early focus of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and suffered relentless shelling for a month. Artillery attacks have, however, now reportedly become rarer as Russian troops seem to be pulling out.

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21 Comments

  1. Someone needs to remind Vladimir that its a "Special Operation" not a war, therefore there can be no prisoners of war, because there is no war.

  2. They gained Mariupol but lost Kharkiv and a few other cities. It is a zero sum gain along with a lot of dead solders and destroyed equipment. They have lost their ultimate goal through a long string of loses. The Russian army have gone through many generals and commanders with ultimate result which is failure as the Ukrainians are fighting a hit and run style defence and offence so they are hard to pin down. Putin is doubling down on the Ukrainian war by sending more equipment and solders all of which will end up the same way. With Belarus railway resistance fighters stalling the transport of equipment and with Ukrainians blowing up ammunition depots and equipment the situation is getting dire for Russias. This war cannot even be sustained for a year before Russia itself will fall into utter bankruptcy and chaos with the European sanctions, reducing consumption of gas and switching gas suppliers. All of which point to almost no money left in the bank to pay for this costly war on Ukraine with no real objective and no real monetary gain beside ruin. Braver shows.

  3. This "news" piece is absolute trash. Ukrainians are losing badly, their main army in the Donbass is in the process of being liquidated and once it is completed Ukrainian resistance will collapse. Diversionary operations on the unimportant thinly manned KharkOV front make no difference.

  4. How my heart bleeds for this insanity. So much suffering for one’s egotistical thinking.
    My prayers for Ukrainian peoples who suffered so much pain & loses in this life. May our dear Lord Jesus heat our pleading thru his Mother’s intercession.
    I also pray for Russians who are against this bloody war.
    May the Lord give them strengths to fight for the truth & their freedoms.

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  6. If Ukraine can get close enough to the Russian border to lob similar destruction onto Russia, what happens then? Russia will need to respond to those areas to provide defense. That will lessen Russian might in the areas Russia is currently holding. Drafts for more Russian young men and women might be needed. That creates questions. More aggressive air war by Russia is risky because Ukraine may be able to reduce the available planes by picking them off. Putin has all those Republics in its hinterlands to worry about, too. He doesn't need wars on two, three fronts.

    Why has oil spiked so high? The US pumps more oil and gas than any other country. We have numerous fields that yield natural gas which does not require the expensive refining the tar coal sands oil from Canada needs. Why has Big Oil stopped the drilling, extracting and refining of our own fields? Is it because the profit from these fields are insufficient compared to the profits from tar coal, which is priced higher because of the toxicity? Or did Big Oil just want to spike the price of all oil – also known as price gouging by artificially manipulating available supply?

    The President cannot regulate gas prices. People carping about that are just uninformed or looking for a false way to hurt Biden. Only Congress can do something about Big Oil price gouging. Since toxic Canadian oil costs so much to refine and is sold overseas anyway, what are Republicans willing to do to force Big Oil to start letting our own resources flow more freely, which is how stable price lowering occurs? Every Republican should be asked how they will intervene in Big Oil price gouging and if they say open up the Keystone XL pipe line again laugh in their faces. (Anyone who doesn't know why: Do some research (called googling).

    Republicans in Congress are afraid to get too specific about high gas prices, because they do not believe in government interfering in businesses that are big donors. Remember that at election time. They could do things with the Democrats today – TODAY – to help reduce price gouging or at least hit the gougers with higher tax on the profits, at least recovering some of the unnecessary profit. Do they care enough about the working folk to do that work? They haven't in the past and they don't talk about actual plans, do they? Republicans like to promise to maga, maga, maga that only produces nada, nada, nada.

  7. Ukraine Lady's remark, "Russians are our brothers, I can't imagine all this destruction." A sad state of affairs for similar cultures colliding. They have the same language, real sad.

  8. Theses forces that stayed in the plant history will remember them as the bravest toughest fighting force like the Alamo or Spartans 300 wow what theses guys went through words couldn't describe it

  9. Ucranianos Soldier's doing good job of the fender they're place Ucranianos.Gloy everyone soldier's Thanks of you to be there God All of your life.Amen AMEN AMEN AMEN..pray 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  10. The one in Kharkov was a just a diversionary operation to trick the ukrops and oblige them to move many of their troops out of Donbass.

    Once the strategic city of Popasnaya was captured, Russia simply withdrew its troops.

    Kharkov is not a target (for now)…

  11. d Kharkiv and continue south from there toward Luhansk and Donetsk to drive the Russians south and eventually along the coast to Mariupol thus cutting off Russian flow of weapons, food and fuel to Russian solders. This is potentially going to be a long war drawn out war and whoever can keep the supply chain going for money, weapons, fuel and food will win this war. George S. Patton at the end of WWII asked for resources to push the Russian army back to Moscow. Dwight D. Eisenhower and president Roosevelt thought it a bad idea. Volodymyr Zelenskyy president of Ukraine is finishing the job that George S. Patton was never allowed to finish. That was one of his greatest disappointments in life. George S. Patton if he were alive would be proud of how well and how brave the Ukrainian army is fighting. They are kicking the Rousky army where it hurts the most and hopefully all the way back to Moscow so Russia will never invade Europe again. George S. Patton can rest in peace seeing this from wherever he is now. Slava Ukraine. Excellent work.

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