Assault with armored and air descent, reported by the Ukrainian army in Kharkov. Russians target a strategic city that has been under their occupation
The Ukrainian military in the Fire Fire Group of the 113 Separate Territorial Defense Brigade are prepared for operations in the direction of Vovceansk, Kharkov region, Ukraine, on February 22, 2025. Photo: AA / Abaca / Abaca Press / Profimedia
The Russian forces tried to pierce Ukrainian defensive positions, with armored and motorized vehicles, and to send troops, through an airline, near the key city of Vovceansk in the Kharkov region, the Hortnitia (East “) forces of the Ukrainian army announced on Monday, according to The Kyiv.
Vovceansk, located just 5 kilometers (3 miles) of the Russian border in the Kharkov region and which once hosted 17,000 people, was the theater of several battles during the war that lasts for more than three years.
Vovceansk was under the occupation of the Russian army until September 2022, when the Ukrainian troops released the city, but then confronted again with heavy fights after Moscow forces started a new offensive in May 2024, which forced many inhabitants to leave their homes.
The Russian army used three armored vehicles and eight motorized vehicles in the newest assault, Kiev troops announced.
The Ukrainian forces destroyed two Russian armored and six motorized vehicles, according to a statement published on the Telegram Messegress application by the Hortitia group, responsible for defensive on that front sector.
“In the direction of Kharkov, the enemy tried to pierce the defense of our defenders in the Vovansk area. To send his assault groups and to pierce the defense of our units in the direction of Vozniesenovka and Vovchanskie Khutory, the enemy used three armored vehicles and eight units of vehicles. Trying to send a group of parachutes.
“The search and destruction of the remains of the enemy's assault groups continue,” they said.
Maksim Komarenko, the deputy commander of the Puscasi Battalion of the 58th Separate Infantry Brigade, confirmed, for the Ukrainian publication, that the Russian army has multiplied its number of attacks in the Kharkov sector on the front line.
“An assault of infantry is always accompanied by something else. Now, the number of air raids has increased, and the number of drones flying to our positions and to the settlements up to Kharkov,” Komarenko said.
A few days ago, the operative-strategic group of forces Hortitia had announced that the Russian troops are regrouped and prepared for a new assault on the Kharkov region.
In an official statement, the hortiness said on Saturday that Russian forces actively regrouping their units and are preparing to resume offensive operations in the Ukrainian border region.
The Russian troops continued the attempts to break the Ukrainian defense in the direction of the Pokrovsk strategic city, attacking to several localities in the area, according to the Saturday statement.
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