Fierce fighting raged into a second day on the fringes of Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region on Saturday as Moscow said it had captured five villages, while Kyiv said it was repulsing the attacks and battling for control of the settlements.
KYIV, May 11 - Fierce fighting raged into a second day on the fringes of Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region on Saturday as Moscow said it had captured five villages, while Kyiv said it was repulsing the attacks and battling for control of the settlements.that may presage a broader push into Kharkiv region or aim to draw away overstretched Ukrainian forces from where Moscow's offensive is focused in the east.
But Kharkiv's governor Oleh Syniehubov said that active fighting continued on the territory of all five of the frontier villages that are located within three to five kms of the border. Syniehubov said there was no imminent danger to the regional capital of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, and no need to begin evacuating its roughly 1.3 million inhabitants who continue to live there despite regular missile and drone strikes.
"The enemy is localized in the 'gray zone', it is not expanding. However, there is the question of finally destroying it and catching it in the tree lines where it could hide," he said in televised comments.Russian forces first attacked Kharkiv region in February 2022 during their full-scale invasion, but were routed from most of the province by a lightning Ukrainian counter-offensive in September of that year.
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