According to the information of the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) spokesman Ruslan Muzychuk, the Ukrainian military managed to stabilise the situation in the Kharkiv region and force the occupation army of the Russian Federation to reduce the number of attacks.
What is known about the situation in the Kharkiv region
In the Kharkiv direction, the Defence Forces are carrying out the necessary actions that made it possible to stabilize the situation, reduce the number of enemy forces and means, and accordingly the number of attempted assaults, noted Muzychuk.
He emphasised that the Russian occupiers continued to actively operate in groups of infantry, which were ordered to occupy positions in forest belts and near populated areas or to capture them.
The NGU spokesman added that the Russian Federation's criminal army uses light vehicles, mainly golf carts, to quickly transfer personnel.
During the past day, the Russians tried to break through the defences of the Ukrainian troops near Vovchansk, Starytsa, Lyptsi, and Zelene.
What has been said in Kharkiv RMA?
According to the information of the deputy head of the Kharkiv RMA , Roman Semenukha, the Russian Federation's occupation army is concentrating its efforts on capturing Vovchansk.
Semenukha emphasised that the Ukrainian military currently controls about 60% of the territory of Vovchansk.
The enemy continues its assault operations, mainly focused on the directions of the settlements of Liptsi and the left and right flanks in Vovchansk.
We have just had several flights of gliding bombs to the settlement of Lyptsi. The enemy does not stop trying, especially inside Vovchansk, to push back the Defence Forces, the city is approximately 60% controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, that is, the assaults do not stop, Semenukha emphasised.
He also added that on the morning of May 20, fierce fighting continued in the Kupiansk region.
At the same time, in some areas, the Ukrainian military conducts its assaults to improve its positions.
In addition, there is continuous shelling of the border areas — these are the Bogodukhiv, Kharkiv and Chuhuyiv districts.
If we talk about the arrivals in Kharkiv, there were also anti-aircraft missiles, there was a new modified ammunition called UMPB D-30, it was right in the most central part of the city, in the central park. The people who died in the Cherkaska Lozova region were the arrival of the "Iskander" cruise missile. And in the Kupiansk district, we have casualties as a result of two shellings by MLRS, notes the deputy head of the Kharkiv RMA.
But the region suffered the most from the shelling of Russian Su-34 and Su-35, which launched gliding bombs at the entire border area. In particular, there were four recent arrivals in Lyptsi.
