'Large-scale offensive and breakthrough': Ukraine claims Russia is building troops in Kharkiv
Ukrainian servicemen fire with a 105mm howitzer toward Russia n positions near the city of Bakhmut amid the Russia n invasion of Ukraine. Khanty-Mansiisk regional governor Natalia Komarova announced her resignation.
Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi said Russia was continuing to send additional regiments and brigades from other areas and from training grounds to bulk up its troops on two main lines of attack in Kharkiv region's north. Ukrainian servicemen drive a tank in the village of Chasiv Yar, near the city of Bakhmut in the region of Donbas amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that American weapons being delivered were helping to stabilise the Ukrainian front lines.
Komarova, who did not explain what had prompted her decision, was criticised by an anti-war activist last year who called for her to be prosecuted for discrediting the Russian army after she appeared to suggest that Moscow had not needed or been ready for what it calls its special military operation in Ukraine.In her resignation video, she thanked President Vladimir Putin for his trust and spoke of the efforts being made by Russian forces on the frontline.
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