Ukrainians flee Kharkiv as Russia advances | Frontline Dispatch

[Music] you can see uh signs of smoke and explosions in the background can also hear the [Music] AL we’re driving up from carv in Northeast Ukraine towards the Russian border where there have been some attacks by Russian forces on villages in and around the Border particularly a town called V Chans and a few other settlements around there there’s been quite a heavy fighting reported over the last 2 or 3 days we understand that the Russian plan is either to try and attack K from here and use this as a an opening assault or as a diversion to distract Ukrainian troops who are busy fighting in the donbas further south and east there’s quite a bit of shelling going on around here and uh every so often you see patches of smoke coming from the woods where artillery is landed come here driving at like 70 80 M hour to avoid being targeted by artillery it’s not a road to hang around on we’re in the company of a group of volunteer rescue workers and some police who are fing people who want to leave of chance back towards [Music] [Music] car so we’re in this old lady’s house she’s busy gathering her belongings so that she can leave as soon as possible um she’s also trying to take her own car I think rather she just got going [Music] H can also hear the a evacuation team and now rescuing this lady with a dog quick as they can we’re now leaving V Chans just earlier while there was a lot of shelling one of the police officers who was out of earshot was saying that there was a Russian drone could be heard buzzing somewhere in the area we’re now in a town just south of V chance that’s being used as a master point for evacuation in people who want to flee the town and the surrounding Villages up near V Chans um it feels fairly quiet here but you can hear a lot of artillery mainly outgoing Ukrainian artillery in the background and also on on the way here from KV as we drove up you can see freshly dug defenses that are clearly being dug in anticipation of a Russian push down here towards kak which is Ukraine’s second biggest city

After two years on the frontline of Ukraine’s war, residents of the Russian border town of Vovchansk have a generous definition of what counts as peace and quiet.

Cross-border skirmishes have been part of life here ever since the invasion started – so much so that most townsfolk barely flinch at the sound of artillery salvoes.

Since Friday, though, what is normally shrugged off as background noise has become a deafening thunder, as Russian forces launch a renewed ground offensive into Ukraine’s north-east.

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42 comments

  1. They must have got nervous after Ukraine has shelled and killed civilians yet again today in Belgorod. It’s sad that local people are so inconvenienced because of the crimes of the Ukrainian army

  5. Russia just captured 110sqkm in little over a day including 12 villages and that operation was a sidenote to what is going on in the Donbas. The collapse of Ukraine is now accelerating.

  8. putin is dying , russian soldiers are not motivated and they have only shovels , sanctions are working , nato wonder weapons , russia is out of missiles fuel food , russia is using parts from washing machines , the ukrainian hollywood counter offensive is gaining momentum and will take back crimea , russia is isolated , ukraine only lost 31k but need another 500k ……. and then nafo bots tell us about russian propaganda 🤭

  9. i don't believe anything told by propanganda outlets like the Telegraph. just here to see how far they go in thier propagandas and how brazen they get. not surprised at all. apparently, Ukraine is the victim at dawn, but the victor at dusk. Western "news" outlets spreading unbelievable levels of falsehood.

  11. Chernihiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Чернігівська область, romanized: Chernihivska oblast), also referred to as Chernihivshchyna (Ukrainian: Чернігівщина), is an oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv. Within the oblast are 1,511 settlements. Population: 959,315 (2022 estimate).[3]

    The total area of the province is around 31,900 km².

    On the west, the oblast is bordered by the Kyiv Reservoir of the Dnieper River and Kyiv Oblast, which has a enclave known as Slavutych, which was created from Chernihiv Oblast for the inhabitants of Chernobyl following the Chernobyl disaster. It is bordered by Sumy Oblast to the east and Poltava Oblast to the south. The northern border of the oblast is part of Ukraine's international border abutting Belarus's Gomel Region in the north-west and the Russian Bryansk Oblast in the north-east, respectively.

    The oblast is bisected into northern and southern sections by the Desna River, which enters the Dnieper just north of the Kyiv city limits.

  14. If I recall, Kharkiv, Kiev, Odessa and lviv are major transportation hubs, roads And rail etc.

    So Kharkiv is key for eastern Ukraine.
    It's like a Much Much Much bigger version of Bastogne

  16. The Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667, also called the Thirteen Years' War,[4] Muscovite War of 1654-1667[5] and the First Northern War,[4] was a major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Between 1655 and 1660, the Swedish invasion was also fought in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and so the period became known in Poland as "The Deluge" or Swedish Deluge.

    The Commonwealth initially suffered defeats, but it regained its ground and won several decisive battles. However, its plundered economy was not able to fund the long conflict. Facing internal crisis and civil war, the Commonwealth was forced to sign a truce. The war ended with significant Russian territorial gains and marked the beginning of the rise of Russia as a great power in Eastern Europe.

  17. Сказочники! Смехота! Эти саложорки и самогоноежки, наркоманы, трусы и врунишки давно в говне. Еще 2014 году когда прыгали по приказу США " козлы" тупые" , было понятно эти овцы тупые победимы. Печеньки тупой Виктории не победят.

  18. A lot of newly purchased NPC bot farm account are active in this comment section. Clearly the FSB has cleaned house and opened another troll farm. I guess the last lot of bots got mobilized

  19. Little Russia Governorate[a] or Malorossiya Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire that encompassed most of modern-day northeastern Ukraine, then given the historical designation of Little Russia, and adjacent regions in Russia.

    The Governorate was formed in 1796 under the administrative reforms of Paul I which abolished the viceroyalty (namestnichestvo) system, which in turn replaced the regimental administration of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1781. This placed the Kiev Viceroyalty (excluding the city of Kiev itself), Novgorod-Seversky Viceroyalty and Chernigov Viceroyalty under the new unit. The administrative centre was the city of Chernigov (Chernihiv).

    However, the extensive area which the new unit covered was too great for effective administration, and in February 1802 the Governorate was split into Chernigov Governorate and Poltava Governorate.

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