A Russian bombing on Monday destroyed the television tower in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, and authorities in kyiv warned that a “difficult period” is expected on the front starting next month.
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Russian forces claimed the capture of a new town located southwest of the city of Donetsk, in the east of the countrya new example of the growing pressure exerted by Moscow in the former Soviet republic, invaded in February 2022.
The structure of the 240-meter television tower collapsed halfway up, an AFP journalist confirmed. The facility had already suffered damage after another Russian attack in March 2022.
Russia just struck the TV tower in Kharkiv, messing with Ukrainian digital signal. It's their scorched-earth tactic in action, déjà vu from spring 2022 pic.twitter.com/rwGOHyaEg2
— Maria Avdeeva (@maria_avdv) April 22, 2024
“The employees hid during the alert. There were no victims,” he specified, adding that there were “interruptions in the television signal.”
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Images spread on social networks and recorded shortly after the impact show the top of the building falling into a cloud of gray smoke.
Its energy infrastructures were also attacked, causing major power outages in late March.
President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled in early April to the newly dug defensive lines in this region, where the front is about 40 kilometers from Kharkov.
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'Difficult situation'
The town is located near Vugledar, a town at the crossroads of the southern and eastern fronts that Russia has been trying to conquer for two years..
Several towns have fallen into Russian hands in recent weeks, at a time when the Ukrainian army faces a shortage of ammunition and military personnel, and when Western military aid is slow to arrive.
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The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, considered on Monday that The situation on the front was going to worsen towards mid-May and June. It will be a “difficult period” for Ukraine, he insisted.
The Russian military “is carrying out a complex operation,” Budanov warned in an interview on the BBC's Ukrainian service. “We think that a difficult situation awaits us in the near future. But we must understand that it will not be catastrophic,” he considered.
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In February, Moscow managed to seize Avdiivka. And today he seeks to conquer Chasiv Yar.
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kyiv fears an even more powerful Russian offensive. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, warned in mid-April that the situation had worsened “considerably” on the eastern front.
The major Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023 ran into strong Russian defensive lines, which depleted the resources of the Ukrainian army.
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