- Sputnik International, 1920, 25.02.2022
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On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev's forces.

Russia Has No Plans to Take Kharkov Under Control Now - Putin

© Sputnik / Anton Vergun / Go to the mediabankRoad sign shows directions to Russia's Belgorod and Ukraine's Kharkov
Road sign shows directions to Russia's Belgorod and Ukraine's Kharkov - Sputnik International, 1920, 17.05.2024
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Russia has no plans to take control of Kharkov, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with students and teachers of the Harbin Institute of Technology.
"As for Kharkov, there are no such plans as of today," the president said.
Russia is making gains in the fighting in the Kharkov region, he also said, adding that the Russian armed forces are moving every day strictly according to plan.
Putin blamed the Ukrainian forces for what was happening in Kharkov region.
"They are shooting directly at the center of the city, at residential areas. And I said publicly that if this continues, we will be forced to create a security zone, a sanitary zone," Putin said.
On May 12, Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the "extremely difficult" situation in the Kharkov region for the Ukrainian military amid Russia's advance.
Russian servicemen fire a Giatsint-B 152 mm self-propelled howitzer towards Ukrainian positions in the course of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, - Sputnik International, 1920, 14.05.2024
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