Moscow targets Kharkiv region in effort to regain ground from Ukrainians
by Daniel Boffey in Dnipro from World news | The Guardian on (#6DM3J)
Russia seeks to exploit situation as Kyiv's counteroffensive concentrates on south and east of country
Russian forces claimed to have pushed the frontline back two miles in the north-east region of Kharkiv as a minister in Kyiv said the Kremlin was trying to take back the oblast almost a year after it was famously liberated by Ukrainian forces.
In the latest strikes on the border region, including the bombing of villages near the city of Kupiansk, two people were said to have been killed and three wounded, while a woman was reported to have died in an attack in Kherson in southern Ukraine.
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