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| Within a week, the Russian Armed Forces liberated 12 settlements in the Kharkov region |
| 2024-05-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Over the course of a week, Russian military groups of troops “North” liberated 12 settlements from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said at a briefing on May 17. “During the week, units of the North group of forces, as a result of active actions, liberated 12 settlements in the Kharkov region,” he said. The villages of Borisovka, Bugrovatka, Gatishche, Krasnoe, Lukyantsy, Morokhovets, Ogurtsovo, Oleynikovo, Pylnaya, Strelechya and the villages of Glubokoe and Pletenevka were liberated from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian military continues to advance deeper into the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As Regnum reported, on May 17, the head of the military-civil administration of the Kharkov region, Vitaly Ganchev, said that Russian troops had liberated more than 200 square meters. km of territory in the north of the region. The Russian Armed Forces are conducting clean-up operations in the city of Volchansk, he said, adding that Russian troops are advancing quickly, which is why panic has grown in the Ukrainian army and desertions have become more frequent. As Russian President Vladimir Putin noted on May 17, he said that the Kiev authorities are to blame for the offensive of Russian troops near Kharkov. The operation in this direction is the creation of a sanitary zone, which is necessary because the Ukrainian Armed Forces are shelling the Belgorod region. As Putin stated, the Russian Armed Forces today have no plans to capture Kharkov. Related from regnum.ru Medvedev: supplies of new missiles to Kyiv can expand the sanitary zone to Poland The West, by supplying the Kiev regime with increasingly long-range missiles, may force Russia to establish a sanitary zone in Ukraine of such a size that it will reach Poland or further, said Deputy Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on May 17 in the Telegram channel. He recalled the repeated warnings of Russian President Vladimir Putin that in order to ensure the security of Russian cities in Ukraine, a buffer zone will have to be created, the width of which will depend on the weapons transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Medvedev noted that Kyiv received Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG missiles with a range of at least 550 km. Moreover, the distance from Belgorod to Kyiv is 429 km. “In other words, Russia should be everywhere there (550 km plus another 70–100 km to be sure) <...>, if this goes on, the guaranteed sanitary zone will be somewhere on the border with Poland. Or already in Poland itself,” wrote the deputy chairman of the Security Council. Medvedev emphasized that this would be a very dangerous situation, since the concept of “non-strategic nuclear weapons” is quite loose. Such weapons involve charges whose power significantly exceeds the power of the nuclear bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he added. As Regnum reported, Putin said on May 17 that the shelling of Russian territories by the Ukrainian army is forcing Russia to take control of the regions of the Kharkov region. He emphasized that the Kiev regime is to blame for this. The president also said that there are no plans to take control of Kharkov yet. On the evening of May 17, the Ukrainian Armed Forces once again attempted a terrorist attack on Russian regions. Russian air defense systems shot down a Tochka-U missile over the Belgorod region. In addition, Ukrainian militants attacked the village of Novaya Naumovka in the Belgorod region, where one person was killed and another was injured. |
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