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Hundreds of people were evacuated from areas near the Russian border in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the regional governor said Saturday, a day after Moscow launched a surprise ground offensive.
“A total of 1,775 people have been evacuated,” Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov wrote on social media.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a “fierce battle” was under way in Kharkiv.“We must disrupt Russian offensive operations and return the initiative to Ukraine,” Zelensky said on Saturday.
On Saturday, Moscow-installed authorities in the Russian-occupied Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine said three people were killed by a Ukrainian strike with US-made missiles on an oil depot. Ukraine’s military said it had deployed more troops, and Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were using artillery and drones to thwart the Russian advance.The US-based Institute for the Study of War said on Friday that Russia had made “tactically significant gains”.
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