{"id":51131,"date":"2024-05-15T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/ukraine-says-it-is-engaged-in-fierce-fighting-with-russia-in-northeast\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:28:08","slug":"ukraine-says-it-is-engaged-in-fierce-fighting-with-russia-in-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/ukraine-says-it-is-engaged-in-fierce-fighting-with-russia-in-northeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Says It Is Engaged in Fierce Fighting With Russia in Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/15\/multimedia\/15ukraine-01-fjhq\/15ukraine-01-fjhq-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ukraine Says It Is Engaged in Fierce Fighting With Russia in Northeast\" title=\"Ukraine Says It Is Engaged in Fierce Fighting With Russia in Northeast\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After surging across the border last week, Russia\u2019s army appears to be advancing more slowly in northeastern Ukraine, Ukrainian officials and military analysts said on Wednesday, with the two sides engaged in fierce combat around villages about five miles from the border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a sign of the concern that Russia\u2019s northeastern offensive is causing in Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=7638318986235617&amp;id=100001727742730&amp;rdid=27MIJuwOggv1XNCB\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">canceled his participation<\/a> in all international events for the coming days, including a visit on Friday to Spain where he was expected to sign a security agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Civilians continued to flee areas of northeastern Ukraine under heavy shelling by Russian forces, the Ukrainian officials said, warning that their troops had to contain relentless assaults and that the situation on the ground could change fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence agency, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qhNBage26gI&amp;ab_channel=%D0%A2%D0%A1%D0%9D\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told Ukrainian television<\/a> on Tuesday that conditions in the area under attack were moving \u201ctoward stabilization,\u201d with additional Ukrainian units being rushed in to repel Russian advances. But he added that \u201cthe situation is quite tense and is changing very quickly.\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:\/\/t.me\/AFUStratCom\/24129\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine\u2019s General Staff<\/a> said around midday Wednesday that Russian forces had \u201cnot carried out active operations since the beginning of the day\u201d in the northeast. But it acknowledged a few hours earlier that Ukrainian troops had withdrawn from positions near two villages to avoid further casualties, allowing Russian forces to move in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The assessments by the Ukrainian officials and analysts appeared to be supported by open-source <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641cf64bd375\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">maps<\/a> of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribblemaps.com\/maps\/view\/The-War-in-Ukraine\/091194\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">battlefield<\/a> compiled by independent groups analyzing combat footage. Those maps showed that Russian troops had gained a foothold in two settlements in the past day, a slower rate of advance than before, when they were capturing up to five settlements a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia_en\/13921\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense<\/a> said on Wednesday that it had captured two settlements in the northeast, as well as the village of Robotyne in the south. The claims could not be independently confirmed, and did not match what the open-source maps showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Robotyne was recaptured by Ukrainian troops last summer, in one of the few gains of Ukraine\u2019s unsuccessful counteroffensive at the time. Should it fall back into Russian hands, it could deal a blow to the morale of the Ukrainian Army.<\/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\">The two villages where Russia has gained a foothold are Lukyantsi and Vovchansk, which lie along Russia\u2019s two lines of attack in the region \u2014 one immediately north of the large city of Kharkiv and the other a dozen miles to the east.<\/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\">Oleksiy Kharkivskiy, the police chief in Vovchansk, confirmed on Wednesday that Russian troops had taken positions in several streets in the village. \u201cActive fighting is ongoing\u201d and the situation \u201cis extremely difficult,\u201d he said in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1164745408052755\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">video published on Facebook<\/a> from the village, in which heavy gunfire could be heard in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vovchansk has been heavily bombed since the start of Russia\u2019s offensive operations on Friday, including with powerful guided weapons known as glide bombs that deliver hundreds of pounds of explosives in a single blast. Almost all the residents of the village, which had a prewar population of 17,000, have fled, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the Kharkiv region\u2019s military administration, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/synegubov\/9501\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said on Wednesday<\/a> that nearly 8,000 civilians had been evacuated from villages and settlements in the region. These include residents of villages on the immediate outskirts of Kharkiv which have come under increasing shelling in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Krystyna Havran, a member of the village council of Lyptsi, about 10 miles north of Kharkiv\u2019s outer ring, said she had been scrambling to evacuate residents in recent days as the fighting got closer. \u201cNo one imagined that there would be an offensive,\u201d she said.<\/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\">Mr. Syniehubov said that Kharkiv had been targeted six times on Tuesday, including with glide bombs that hit the northern part of the city, causing heavy damage to a 12-storey apartment building and injuring 22 people. A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=316326758185410\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> released by the national police shows officers walking on piles of rubble inside a building and firefighters putting out a blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mykola Bielieskov, a military analyst at the government-run National Institute for Strategic Studies in Ukraine, said the Russian strikes were designed \u201cto instill fear and make people flee from frontline urban areas.\u201d But he added that to force Kharkiv\u2019s 1.2 million residents to flee, Russia would have \u201cto systematically target the city \u2014 weeks of strikes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Analysts say this could explain why Russia is pushing north of Kharkiv. If Russian troops secured positions in a village like Lyptsi, they would be within artillery range of the city, allowing them to pound it with shells.<\/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 has also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/08\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-power-plants-attack.html\" title=\"\">targeted power plants and substations<\/a> in the Kharkiv region and other areas of Ukraine since March, part of a campaign to cut off electricity to swaths of the country and make life miserable for civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The strikes have severely limited Ukraine\u2019s available generating capacity. As a consequence, Ukrenergo, the country\u2019s national transmission system operator, introduced emergency blackouts for households and businesses in several regions on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, in an effort to save energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Power outages were limited in Kyiv, affecting only 10 percent of the consumers, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/VA_Kyiv\/5938\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">local authorities<\/a>. But Ukrenergo <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Ukrenergo\/2837\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> that new blackouts were likely to be introduced again on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Daria Mitiuk<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/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\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-war-fighting-russia-advance.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After surging across the border last week, Russia\u2019s army appears to be advancing more slowly in northeastern Ukraine, Ukrainian officials and military analysts said on Wednesday, with the two sides engaged in fierce combat around villages about five miles from the border. 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