The governor of Kharkiv, Oleg Sinigubov, announced the evacuations, announcing on his channel on the social network Telegram that 30 sites in the border region had been attacked by artillery or bombed by enemy aircraft during the last day.
Moreover, as a result of “mass” attacks in the Vovchansk region, where Russian forces attempted to cross the border on Friday, two civilians, a man and a woman, were killed, while a 55-year-old civilian died in the shelling. Village of Cherkasy Tishki, according to Sengubov.
According to the Ukrainian army’s morning report, the Russians launched seven missiles, 108 aerial bombardments and 120 rockets in the past 24 hours, while ground attacks were particularly numerous on the Avdiivka front in the east.
Kiev claims that it has so far been able to repel nine attacks in the Slobozhansky border area of Kharkiv.
On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed a Russian attempt to open a new front in Kharkiv, explaining that Ukrainian forces were able to repel it “with artillery fire.”
Russia launched a wave of offensive countermeasures in this direction. Zelensky said in a press conference: “Ukraine confronted them with troops, brigades and artillery,” stressing that the Ukrainian leadership knew that the Russians had strengthened the presence of their forces in that border region and that they had placed enough forces there to repel them. With fire.
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