Russian forces bear down on Ukraine border town in Kharkiv region

A police officer helps local residents during an evacuation to Kharkiv due to Russian shelling, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv region, on May 12.Russian forces attacking Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region reached the outskirts of the border town of Vovchansk, Kyiv’s troops said on Sunday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky described heavy fighting there and in the east.

“The town is ours. They are biting on the outskirts, but we are biting back. And we will bite for every metre,” said a Ukrainian soldier. Several Russian media outlets, including Mash and Readovka, reported that Moscow’s troops had entered Vovchansk. Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Synehubov said Russian forces were “intensifying their shelling of Vovchansk". Nearly 6,000 residents had been evacuated from the area, he said.

“The occupier is trying to gain a foothold in some of them, while others are being used to advance further.”Thirty armed clashes had occurred in the past 24 hours, he said, in the Pokrovsk sector, northwest of Avdiivka, a key town captured by Russian forces in February. There was also fighting in the Lyman, Kupiansk, Kramatorsk and other areas.

Kyiv says months of delays by the U.S. Congress before voting through the massive aid package last month have cost them on the battlefield. It now hopes significant quantities of the newly approved assistance will arrive quickly to shore up the defence effort.

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