Volchansk was captured again. The failure of the Russian attack in the Kharkov region

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that the Russian army failed to implement the Kharkov operation.

The Russian offensive in the Kharkov region was finally lost. The window for a Russian breakthrough is narrow, writes Bloomberg. Most of the region of Volchansk, Kharkov, which suffered the main blow of the invaders, is controlled by the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

The situation in Volchansk

“Most of the city is fully controlled by the Ukrainian Defense Forces, they keep the enemy under fire control and cause maximum losses to him. We are trying to advance to liberate all our territories,” said Nazar Voloshin, a representative of OSGV Khortitsa, at the telethon.

Voloshin added that in the direction of Kharkov, the Ukrainian military was actively destroying the personnel and equipment of the invaders.

“Also in this direction, the infantrymen of the 36th Marine Brigade recently captured some Russian military personnel. These are officers and some soldiers of the Russian army,” the spokesman said.

There will be no buffer zone

Bloomberg writes that Russia’s attempt to open a new front in the Kharkov region “seems unsuccessful,” because the goal of creating a buffer zone near the border cannot be achieved, and Ukraine claims that caused great losses to the conquerors in battles. in the Volchansk region.

The head of the Moscow Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Ruslan Pukhov, told Bloomberg reporters that Russia’s approach to the destruction of Ukrainian forces is “very expensive and bloody for the Russian army itself” and “could lead on the Russian side, which, in turn, gives the Ukrainians an opportunity for a counterattack.

On June 5, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrsky, said on his Telegram channel that while Russia is attacking several points on the front line, “there are opportunities to change the situation in our favor.”

Journalists wrote that the war had largely reached a stalemate. Bloomberg recalled that while Ukrainian officials sounded the alarm about the possibility of a breakthrough by the Russian army over delays in the delivery of US weapons, the Ukrainian military held the front line, despite 10 of an advantage of the conquerors in arms.

Not in favor of Russia

Russia’s prospects for victory this year have been significantly reduced by renewed weapons and aid supplies, Ben Barry, a senior fellow in the land war department at London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies, told Bloomberg. “Russia may have more troops, but many of their top armored vehicles have been destroyed and it will take years to rebuild the army to 2022 levels,” he added.

Although Russia is also experiencing problems with human resources. In December, the United States estimated the number of Russian military dead and wounded at 315,000, roughly 90% of the initial invasion force, Bloomberg recalled. The UK Ministry of Defense last week raised its estimate of total Russian casualties to 500,000 and said they were up to 1,200 troops in one day in May, the article also said.

“Russia has not translated its advantages on the battlefield into significant victories because its commanders expend manpower in achieving their goals, and Ukrainian forces are effective in defense when they are given people and equipment,” said Dara Masikot, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace.

“A huge result is that the Russian army failed to implement its Kharkov operation. We are preventing it as much as possible, destroying the Russian units that are now entering our land and terrorizing the Kharkov region. The direction is strengthened , and there will be more reinforcements,” emphasized President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.