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Zelenskiy says air defences must quadruple to halt Russian advance
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The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said he expects Russia to step up its offensive in the north-east and warned Kyiv has only a quarter of the air defences it needs to hold the front line.
Russian forces, which had made only moderate advances in recent months, launched a surprise assault in Kharkiv region on 10 May that has resulted in their biggest territorial gains in a year-and-a-half.
Zelenskiy said Russian troops advanced between five to 10km (3-6 miles) along the north-eastern border before being stopped by Ukrainian forces, but added that fighting in the region could be the “first wave” in a wider offensive.
“I won’t say it’s a great success [for Russia] but we have to be sober and understand that they are going deeper into our territory,” he said, speaking to Agence-France Presse from Kyiv in his first interview with foreign media since the offensive began.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said during a trip to China this week the north-eastern offensive was in retaliation for Ukraine’s shelling of border regions and that Moscow was trying to create a “security zone”.
Ukrainian officials have accused Russian soldiers in Vovchansk of capturing dozens of civilians and using them as “human shields” to defend their command headquarters – a claim AFP was not able to immediately verify.
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