Ukraine facing 'difficult situation' on Kharkiv front | DW News

In Ukraine, thousands more civilians have fled Russia's renewed ground offensive on the northeastern front. Kyiv has sent reinforcements to the border of the Kharkiv region where there are intense battles with artillery and mortar fire. Russia says it has captured several villages. Ukraine's military chief admitted the situation is difficult but said his forces are doing everything to hold defensive lines and positions.

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00:00 Situation at Ukraine's Kharkiv front
02:16 Marina Miron, War Studies Department at King's College London

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[lazziebardakos]

When the western media start reporting and saying 'difficult situation' you can imagine how bad things are

[rutherpomaloli]

Surprise attack?? Ukraine was saying russia was preparing an offensive in kharkiv region a while ago, where are the defense trenches?, where is the syrski defensive line?.

[HanSoloRio]

If they say "difficult situation" it s because the things a really bad

[stressfreesasaki]

If the whole Europe can’t fight Russia then why do you expect Ukraine to win the war

[larryabo]

Zelensky said the situation is going as planned. And the residents said the situation is horrible.

[ragingmonk]

She had to tell him two or three times that the problem is man power. You can send 50 weapons but if you only have 10 soldiers...

[sabprogroup]

I thought you guys said Russia lost this war already 2 years ago and that they were fighting with shovels and washing machine parts.

[Dbenzsanz]

Did anyone think how the Russians felt when the Kyiv regime bombed the Luhansk and donensk oblasts in 2014 where 14000 died .

[truth]

Ukraine's defenses had no depth. Everything was at the front. Once that fell, it was easy for Russia to keep going and swallowing up more and more territory.

[millenium]

It will be funny if Ukraine loses kharkiv after receiving 60 billion

[MrDogbrain]

What war has the US ever genuinely won besides the Gulf War which was just basically attacking retreating soldiers with crappy equipment who couldn't defend themselves?

[nilambu]

But Russia was out of ammo from October, 2022. It’s wonder how they are still achieving these success against advanced NATO weapons with just shovels.

[maliksomed]

In anyway Russia is not targeting civilians as compared to Israel

[checkmilu]

Zelensky claimed Ukraine has only lost 31k soldiers, so they shouldn't have man power problem 😂

[BlueredCatalan]

An officer from the 57th Brigade Denis Yaroslavsky says that fortifications were supposed to have been built around Volchansk in 2022. But due to corruption the money allocated was never used to build fortifications. This is the same problem Ukraine is facing in the Donbass. After the fall of Avdiivka Ukraine was supposed to fall back to fortifications on the outskirts but none were built. The downfall of Ukraine will not be brought by lack of western aid or resolve but by the inability of Ukrainian officials to contain their greed and prioritize national security over lining up their own pockets.

[jerryg]

They really thought they were going to defeat Russia.

[PerceivedREALITY]

People who think that Ukraine is winning are living in denial. They seek comfort in subjective reality and ignore all the facts.

[waynegore]

Ukraine is winning and winning bigly on media.

[kgmclol]

How’s was it a surprise when they said they anticipated the attack

[vipulgupta]

One can visibly see how the evacuators are now only old age citizens, Zelensky has almost eaten up Ukraine's entire young population and he is not done yet.