UKRAINE is struggling to defend the city of Kharkiv as Russian troops launch a fresh advance, officials said yesterday.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation was "extremely difficult" as Vladimir Putin's forces made their biggest gains in months.
Moscow has made inroads a few miles to the north of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, forcing outnumbered troops to try to hold the line on a new front.
Russia recently hit the region with an Iskander missile, and claimed to have destroyed a key command post.
Heavy shelling of Ukrainian positions near Vovchansk, three miles inside the border, was also reported.
President Zelensky visited wounded troops at a Kharkiv medical facility and said: "The direction remains extremely difficult. We are strengthening our units."
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