Kharkiv

Russian troops are withdrawing from Ukraine's second-largest city after weeks of heavy bombardment, the Ukrainian military said Saturday.

He said Ukraine was ready to hand the bodies over to Russia, but so far there was no agreement to do so. An aide to Mariupol's mayor said between 150,000 and 170,000 civilians remain in the city, which had a prewar population of more than 400,000. The bodies were wrapped in white body bags and stacked several layers deep. The Nordic nations' potential bids to join the Western military alliance were thrown into question when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is "not of a favorable opinion" toward the idea. Ukraine's deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, told the country's Suspilne news outlet Saturday that Ukrainian authorities are negotiating the evacuation of 60 severely wounded troops from the steelworks. Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of Ukraine's Azov Regiment, said his troops will hold out "as long as they can" despite shortages of ammunition, food, water and medicine. This week, the president and prime minister of Finland announced they want the Nordic nation to seek NATO membership. Before the war, Ukraine had its most highly trained soldiers in the region to stave off the Russia-backed rebels. In a Telegram post, Petro Andryushchenko said the residents were "hostages" of the occupying Russian forces, "with almost no chance to escape to Ukraine." A Russian battalion tactical group consists of about 1,000 troops. "This will depend, unfortunately, not only on our people, who are already giving their maximum," he said. The It said the risky river crossing was a sign of "the pressure the Russian commanders are under to make progress in their operations in eastern Ukraine."

Russians were unable to hold ground against the Ukrainian fighters over the past several days, the ISW said, and were prevented from encircling Kharkiv.

“The breaking point will be in the second part of August,” he said. “There was no shelling in the city for the last five days. “The Russians were constantly shelling Kharkiv because they were staying very close to the city,” Terekhov said. So, in the future we will have to do huge reconstruction.” Ihor Terekhov said Russian troops never occupied the city, but entered just a small part of it once, and had not been there for some time. The comments came two days after a major Ukranian victory at the Siverskiy Donets River, an area about 25 miles east of Kharkiv which Russia previously controlled.

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"Ukraine thus appears to have won the battle of Kharkiv," the institute wrote. "Ukrainian forces prevented Russian troops from encircling, let alone seizing Kharkiv, and then expelled them from around the city, as they did to Russian forces attempting to seize Kyiv." Ukrainian forces "appear to have won" the battle of Kharkiv after they were able to expel Russian troops from around the city, a U.S. defense think tank said Friday.

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“The vast majority of critical infrastructure will have to be rebuilt.” “We are entering a new, long phase of the war,” he said in a Facebook post, adding that Ukraine will face “extremely tough weeks” ahead in the face of an “enraged aggressor”. The UK’s Ministry of Defence said earlier this week that the Russian pullback from Kharkiv showed “a tacit recognition of Russia’s inability to capture key Ukrainian cities where they expected limited resistance from the population”.

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“I hope my work is a signal that the life in the city is not dead. On Friday, he was back spray-painting a garage in the city centre. She finished her route in central Kharkiv that day – “Lyudmila Yurchenko’s route was the last one still running after the war started,” she says proudly – then went home to Saltivka and straight into the bomb shelter under her apartment block. Most restaurants and shops remain boarded up as though the worst is yet to come. Central Kharkiv is not as badly damaged as the suburbs, but it still has its scars. But when it comes this way, we go back in the basement.” “They hit the school; they destroyed the kindergarten. And while it’s now safe enough for journalists and aid workers to enter Saltivka, many of those who have been hiding in basements since the start of the war don’t feel it’s time yet to emerge from their shelters. What he misses most is the ability to walk about freely and play with his friends above ground. Life in the Studentska station is anything but lonely. The desire to remain where there is at least some protection is understandable. But as with the capital city of Kyiv, Russia’s plans for a quick conquest were thwarted by ferocious Ukrainian resistance.

"Ukrainian forces prevented Russian troops from encircling, let alone seizing Kharkiv, and then expelled them from around the city," a US think tank said.

"This will depend, unfortunately, not only on our people, who are already giving their maximum. This isn't the first time Russia's military has shifted focus after failing to capture a Ukrainian city. First lady Jill Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have also visited Ukraine in recent weeks.

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Ukraine has entered a “new, long phase of the war,” while its troops have pushed Russian forces closer to the northern border.

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Ukrainian officials say they are negotiating with the Russians to release more than three dozen wounded fighters. Kharkiv: Ukrainian forces have mounted an effective counterattack in the area around this northeastern city, pushing Russian troops to withdraw, but shelling continues. Meanwhile, shelling across the country continues to claim lives and destroy infrastructure. The report also outlined the dangers of accession to NATO, acknowledging that Russia would “react negatively” to any such step. The move frustrated Senate leaders, who offered to hold an amendment vote on his provision, which Paul declined. Ukrainian forces, however, have been pushing back Russian troops from the area in recent days, the country’s military has said. Ukraine has recently experienced a “tectonic shift” in Western aid, including the delivery of American howitzers, Reznikov said. The announcement follows the first war crime prosecution of a Russian soldier following the invasion. Though Russia controls most of Mariupol after weeks of fighting, Ukrainian troops there are refusing to surrender, and are holed up inside the plant. There is the bombing of civilian infrastructure, the killing of civilians, rape and looting.” Washington is seeking clarifications on the position of the Turkish leader, who has a long track record of using NATO’s consensus-driven policymaking to extract concessions favorable to Ankara.

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He said Ukraine was ready to hand the bodies over to Russia, but so far there was no agreement to do so. An aide to Mariupol’s mayor said between 150,000 and 170,000 civilians remain in the city, which had a prewar population of more than 400,000. The Nordic nations’ potential bids to join the Western military alliance were thrown into question when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is “not of a favorable opinion” toward the idea. The bodies were wrapped in white body bags and stacked several layers deep. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, told the country’s Suspilne news outlet Saturday that Ukrainian authorities are negotiating the evacuation of 60 severely wounded troops from the steelworks. Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, said his troops will hold out “as long as they can” despite shortages of ammunition, food, water and medicine. This week, the president and prime minister of Finland announced they want the Nordic nation to seek NATO membership. The It said the risky river crossing was a sign of “the pressure the Russian commanders are under to make progress in their operations in eastern Ukraine.” Before the war, Ukraine had its most highly trained soldiers in the region to stave off the Russia-backed rebels. In a Telegram post, Petro Andryushchenko said the residents were “hostages” of the occupying Russian forces, “with almost no chance to escape to Ukraine.” “This will depend, unfortunately, not only on our people, who are already giving their maximum,” he said. A Russian battalion tactical group consists of about 1,000 troops.