{"id":48864,"date":"2024-05-12T12:20:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/russian-forces-push-deeper-into-northern-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:20:05","slug":"russian-forces-push-deeper-into-northern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/russian-forces-push-deeper-into-northern-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/12\/multimedia\/12ukraine-kharkiv-01-hkbv\/12ukraine-kharkiv-01-hkbv-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine\" title=\"Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russian forces continued their advance across northeastern Ukraine on Sunday, seizing a number of small settlements along the border and forcing Ukrainian troops to retreat from some positions, aid workers and the Ukrainian military said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Aid workers said that Russian troops had advanced deeper inside Ukrainian territory and were now threatening several small towns on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second largest city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to a Ukrainian military unit, the Russian forces are pushing hard from the Russia-Ukraine border toward Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cToday, during heavy fighting, our defenders were forced to withdraw from a few more of their positions, and today, another settlement has come completely under Russian control,\u201d said a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/gostrikartuzy\/245\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">video statement<\/a> released on Saturday night by Hostri Kartuzy, a Ukrainian special forces unit. \u201cThe Russians are dying in droves. But they are pressing on regardless and succeeding in some areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-kharkiv.html\" title=\"\">Russian forces launched a complex, surprise offensive<\/a> on Friday, deploying fighter jets, artillery units, infantry and armor, surging across the northeastern frontier between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With fighting raging in the area, cross-border fire has intensified and Russia accused Ukraine on Sunday of hitting a multistory building in the Russian city of Belgorod, about 45 miles from Kharkiv. The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/proisshestviya\/20771417\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Russian state-run news agency TASS<\/a> said there had been at least 17 casualties, without specifying a death toll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia\/38699\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry<\/a> said fragments from an intercepted Ukrainian missile had struck the building. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/vvgladkov\/6863\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Vyacheslav Gladkov<\/a>, the governor of the Belgorod region, posted video from the scene showing an enormous hole in a building. \u201cThe entire entrance from the tenth to the first floor collapsed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The claims could not be independently verified and Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the strike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia\u2019s new offensive push near Kharkiv has allowed its troops to quickly seize dozens of square miles of Ukrainian territory. Civilians living in the small towns and country villages along the border have been caught in the crossfire, and many are desperately trying to escape. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/synegubov\/9445\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kharkiv\u2019s governor said on Sunday morning<\/a>. Some of them were extracted with their pets. Others have been taken out on stretchers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">All day Saturday, small vans and even bright yellow school buses rumbled over deeply cratered roads littered with bomb shrapnel to rescue people who were trapped in towns that had come under intense shelling.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, people who had evacuated were pleading with their loved ones still in the border villages to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Svitlana Nahorna said her husband was trapped in Bilyi Kolodiaz, a small village northeast of Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been pleading with him to leave, but he refused,\u201d she said in a sheltered for displaced people in Kharkiv. \u201cWe\u2019re afraid whether it\u2019s even possible to get him out now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Military analysts believe that the Russians launched this attack to distract the thinly stretched Ukrainian forces from the contested battlefields of eastern Ukraine and force them to divert troops they cannot spare to the northeastern border area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Russians are also trying to carve out a buffer zone along the border to make it more difficult for Ukrainian forces to launch artillery into Russia. The Russians might also be trying to get close enough to Kharkiv to shell it and sow panic, as they did in the early days of the war in 2022, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">&#8220;The seizure of Kharkiv City most certainly is a desired operational objective for Russian forces, but not one that the Russian military appears to be pursuing in the near term,\u201d the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based research group, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingwar.org\/sites\/default\/files\/May%2011%20Russian%20Offensive%20Campaign%20Assessment%20PDF_0.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in a report<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the most likely aim of the attack was to \u201cdraw Ukrainian forces from other sectors of the front while allowing Russian forces\u201d to advance to within \u201cartillery range of Kharkiv City.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine seemed to hit a note of increasing concern in an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-oil-depot-attack-luhansk-russia-kharkiv\/32942040.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">address on Saturday<\/a>. \u201cThe focus is primarily on the front line,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Citing all of the combat engagements in eastern Ukraine, he added, \u201cIt\u2019s extremely difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Constant M\u00e9heut<!-- --> contributed reporting from Kyiv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/12\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-kharkiv.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian forces continued their advance across northeastern Ukraine on Sunday, seizing a number of small settlements along the border and forcing Ukrainian troops to retreat from some positions, aid workers and the Ukrainian military said. 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