{"id":462697,"date":"2025-12-21T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/462697\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T18:33:13","slug":"ukraine-battles-an-attempted-russian-breakthrough-in-border-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/462697\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Battles an Attempted Russian Breakthrough in Border Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian army was battling an attempted Russian breakthrough in the Sumy region, it said on Sunday, following reports that Moscow forcibly moved 50 people from a border village there.<\/p>\n<p>This marks a renewed Russian advance in the part of the region previously largely spared from intense ground fighting since Ukraine regained land there in a swift 2022 counter-offensive.<\/p>\n<p>JOIN US ON TELEGRAM<\/p>\n<p>Follow our coverage of the war on the <a class=\"inarticle_link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Kyivpost_official\" target=\"_blank\">@Kyivpost_official<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFighting is currently ongoing in the village of Hrabovske,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s joint task force said, adding the troops were \u201cmaking efforts to drive the occupiers back into Russian territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has also refuted media reports saying that the Moscow troops were in the neighboring Ryasne village.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, the Ukrainian rights ombudsman said the enemy\u2019s troops forcibly moved about 50 people from Hrabovske to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Russian soldiers \u201cillegally detained about 50 civilians &#8212; residents of the village of Hrabovske in the Sumy region,\u201d ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that they were held incommunicado in poor conditions, before the Russians \u201cforcibly took them to the territory of the Russian Federation\u201d on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>AFP is unable to verify the claims, and there was no official Russian comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Saturday, the Russian army said it had captured the village of Vysoke, a few miles from Grabovske.<\/p>\n<p>Sumy military administration said on Saturday it evacuated residents from the border communities in the area, who previously refused to leave, in armored vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"col-10 col-sm-3 block-insert-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/post\/66156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-fluid post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/78fe093c20b464ce1aa41e400c69cd70.png\" alt=\"A Warning Against Appeasement \u2013 Interview With Karl von Habsburg (Part I)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other Topics of Interest<\/p>\n<p>                                <a class=\"title-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/post\/66156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Warning Against Appeasement \u2013 Interview With Karl von Habsburg (Part I)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first of this two-part interview, Karl von Habsburg warns Europe against appeasement, the importance of understanding Ukraine\u2019s true fight, and the risks of a wider European invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough attempt comes as Russia slowly but steadily gains ground in eastern Ukraine amid renewed talks to end the four-year war.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that over the week, \u201cRussia has launched approximately 1,300 attack drones, nearly 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 9 missiles of various types\u201d against Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian army was battling an attempted Russian breakthrough in the Sumy region, it said on Sunday, following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":462698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-462697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115758996557389971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}