Russia’s Assault on Kharkiv: What You Need to Know
Simon Whistler · May 16, 2024 · 19 min video · Europe & NATO
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Those living in the region must have played out like a nightmare. One of those bad dreams where you know something awful is about to happen, but your powerless to stop it. For months now, Western and Ukrainian intelligence has been warning about a massing of Russian forces near Ukraine's northeast border not far from the city of Kharkiv.
As the troop numbers swell to around 35,000, President Vladimir Putin began talking about the need to create a buffer region along the border with Kharkiv a blast. He speculated that an assault on Ukraine's second city could come at any time in May or June.
In short, it was an attack foretold, a move in the Ukraine war's bloody strategy game that just about everyone saw coming.
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