Ukraine has driven troops out of the region around the second-largest city of Kharkiv, the fastest advance since forcing the Kremlin’s forces from Kyiv and the northeast over a month ago
Ukrainian forces destroyed a pontoon bridge and parts of a Russian armored column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region, video footage released by Ukraine’s military showed on Friday, and a Russian naval ship was set afire in the Black Sea.
Delivering a daily intelligence update on Friday, Britain’s defense ministry said the images suggested that Russia had lost armored maneuver elements of at least one battalion tactical group and the pontoon bridging equipment depolyed while crossing the Siverskyi Donets river west of Severodonetsk.
Russian forces have been bombarding the steelworks, the last bastion of Ukrainian defenders in a city almost completely controlled by Russia after a siege of more than two months. Ukraine said it had damaged a Russian navy logistics ship near the island, a small but strategic outpost, and set it on fire.
Images also showed recent damage to buildings on the island, which became famous for the foul-mouthed defiance of its Ukrainian defenders early in the invasion.As fighting continued around the country, wider diplomatic moves dialed up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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