Ukraine Army Chief Says Russia’s Kharkiv Offensive Bogged Down
- Ukrainian defenses largely halt incursion as Kharkiv attacked
- Syrskyi says Russian troops intensify attacks in east
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Ukraine’s top military officer said Kyiv’s forces largely halted a Russian incursion in the northeast even as the Kremlin hit the city of Kharkiv with a missile attack that killed at least seven people.
Two weeks after Russian troops poured over the border north of Kharkiv to open a fresh front, the advance has ground to a halt for now in the town of Vovchansk less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of the frontier, and in Lyptsi to the southwest, Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Thursday.