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Ukraine withdraws troops around Kharkiv as Russian offensive gains momentum
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Russia’s new offensive gained momentum Wednesday around Ukraine’s second-largest city, the latest gut punch for Kyiv as it struggles to contain this new front in the war following delays in crucial military aid from the United States.
Ukraine’s army said it had withdrawn some of its forces from more areas around the crucial northeastern city of Kharkiv, while local officials said Russian troops had taken up positions inside the key front-line town of Vovchansk.
“Due to the impact of fire and assault actions of the enemy, in order to save the lives of our servicemen and avoid losses, the units carried out a maneuver and moved to more advantageous positions,” Ukraine’s armed forces said on Facebook.
The Russian forces attacking Ukraine have swelled to more than 500,000, a significant numerical advantage over their neighbors, according to Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank.
Ukrainian officials are also expecting Russia to make a “hard push” further west in the Sumy region, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told The New York Times.
“It is obvious that the situation at the front and the Ukrainian army’s military failures are causing increasingly serious concerns in the Biden administration,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told a daily briefing Wednesday.
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