Russian forces launch new assault on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region • FRANCE 24 English

well as of late yesterday evening the Ukrainian general staff were saying that there were two areas that they were describing as a great area where Ukrainian armed forces were trying to beat back the Russians so the Russians made incursions at two different points along the border with Ukraine one to the northeast of harv city near the town of vchan and another one pretty much due north of harv City some Ukrainian military sources were saying that four or five Villages had been captured in those areas officially the ukrainians are preferring not to describe them as captured but as contested a great area at the moment now there’s lot of speculation raging about what the scope and aim of this new offensive is certainly it’s opening up a new front there has been fighting in harv region basically continuously throughout uh this fullscale war but lately it’s been concentrated in the east of the region on the border with occupied luhansk region now it’s on the border with Russia certainly opening up a new front forces Ukraine to redeploy forces to defend that area forces that could perhaps otherwise be used to defend donet region it’s believed that the Russian offensive to try to take the rest of donet region remains moscow’s priority um but whether or not they’re only trying to distract the ukrainians in harv region or whether or not they’re actually planning to mount a fullscale offensive on harv City or perhaps occupy just part of the region to create a buffer zone which is something that Vladimir Putin hinted at uh back in March that we don’t know yet and there seems to be a very wide range of opinions among different Ukrainian commentators about this

Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the northeast of the country and made small inroads, opening a new front in a war that has long been waged in the east and south. Four or five villages have been captured, FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg said citing military sources.
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  3. The UK and its allies got tricked into backing a “corrupt mafia state” in Ukraine and getting into a war of attrition against a Moscow-Beijing partnership, Dominic Cummings has said in an interview. “We should have never got into the whole stupid situation,” Cummings told the outlet I News in an interview published on Wednesday, commenting on London’s full-throated support for Kiev. He also described Ukraine as a “corrupt sh*thole that doesn’t matter at all.”

    “This is not a replay of 1940 with the pumpkin [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky as the Churchillian underdog,” he added. “This whole Ukrainian corrupt mafia state has basically conned us all and we’re all going to get f**ked as a consequence.”

    Western sanctions have been “more of a disaster” for the EU than for Russia, driving up the cost of living while pushing Moscow and Beijing closer together, according to Cummings. All the West managed to do is get into a war of attrition with Russia, “who we pushed into an alliance with the world’s biggest manufacturing power.”

    Cummings also addressed the argument that Russian President Vladimir Putin needed to be “taught a lesson” about invading neighbors.

    “The lesson we’ve taught Putin is that we’re a bunch of total f**king jokers,” he said. “I mean, Putin already knew that before the war. But this has emphasized it and broadcast it to the entire world, what a bunch of clowns we are,” he added.

    Between the sanctions regime and the U.S. trying to seize frozen Russian assets, the West is encouraging the emergence of alternative global financial systems, he explained.

    Cummings slammed former PM Boris Johnson – with whom he is no longer on speaking terms – for using the Ukraine conflict for “acting out his Churchillian fantasies,” as well as the Parliament that “swallowed all of his total bullsh*t on Ukraine and actually took it seriously.”

  8. I am unemployed political scientist.

    Russian forces were able to move one kilometer forward, but with heavy losses caused by firewall of Ukrainian field-artillery.

  11. Putin Said it "we will create buffer zone in ukraine so these incursion must stopped" Bcz they were crossing from kharkiv to Russia

  15. As of May 2024 Ukraine is a wrecked nation. No industry, shrinking male population, no economy all just to be a member of NATO. Greatest mass suicide in history. Ukraine is a giant People's Temple cult with Zelenskyy as the Reverend Jim Jones.

  18. Its funny how the west report the updates about Ukraine conflict and i guess it is understandable. The news goes to 5 stages of grief( denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) and the truth will be known after few days or months . Start the Peace negotiations under Russian terms otherwise go to the frontline to be on ukraines terms😂😂

  23. Zelensky captured Moscow on a tank with the Ukrainian army, and NATO escaped😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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