Ukrainian troops continue to control Kharkiv - Head of Regional State Administration
Kharkiv Regional State Administration after the shelling
Ukrainian troops continue to control Kharkiv, fighting continues in the Izium region; near the town of Andriivka, border guards repulsed an attack by an enemy secret subversive group.
This was announced by the Head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleh Synehubov in Telegram.
Kharkiv is completely under the defense of the Armed Forces. The enemy does not make active offensive operations, continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on residential infrastructure on the outskirts of the city.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupation forces have fired more than 50 artillery and rocket-propelled grenades at Oleksiivka, Piatykhatky, Pivnichne Highway, Belgorodske Highway, Kholodna Hora, Derhachi, Pivnichna Saltivka, and Pivdenna Saltivka.
At approximately 9.25 pm, enemy fighter jets from the city of Belgorod, Russia, flew to the city of Izium. But as a result of coordinated actions of the Air Defense Forces of the Armed Forces, the planes retreated and took the opposite course. There are no casualties among the personnel of the Armed Forces.
Fighting continues in the Izium region. The enemy leads pontoon-bridge crossings across the Siverskyi Donets and Bereka rivers.
The Ukrainian military repulsed the enemy in the direction of Derhachi. At night, the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces, together with units of the National Guard and Territorial Defense, counterattacked the enemy's artillery and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, which systematically fired on the outskirts of Kharkiv.
After unsuccessful resistance, the enemy fled, leaving military equipment in the form of heavy weapons.
Part of the enemy's personnel managed to escape to the forests in the direction of Belgorod, the authorities are asking to help the local population to be careful and, if possible, to facilitate the search for fugitives.
Also at night in the village of Andriivka, Balakliia district, Izium region, a battle took place between the military of the State Border Guard Service and enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups. The enemy attacked the checkpoint.
As a result of the battle, the enemy secret subversive group was completely defeated, the personnel of the sabotage group began to flee. At the same time, they threw their wounded comrade-in-arms in the middle of the field. He was taken prisoner by our Ukrainian border guards.
