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The Russians simply walked in, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv tell BBC [View all]
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72p0xx410xoThe Russians simply walked in, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv tell BBC
3 hours ago
Jonathan Beale, Defence correspondent
Denys Yaroslavskyi is angry.
As the Commander of a Ukrainian Special Reconnaissance Unit, he fought in Ukraine’s surprise offensive in Kharkiv in the autumn of 2022, which pushed back an initial Russian invasion all the way back to the border.
[...]
He shows me video from a drone feed taken a few days ago of small columns of Russian troops simply walking across the border, unopposed.
He says officials had claimed that defences were being built at huge cost, but in his view, those defences simply weren’t there. “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal”.
[...]
3 hours ago
Jonathan Beale, Defence correspondent
Denys Yaroslavskyi is angry.
As the Commander of a Ukrainian Special Reconnaissance Unit, he fought in Ukraine’s surprise offensive in Kharkiv in the autumn of 2022, which pushed back an initial Russian invasion all the way back to the border.
[...]
He shows me video from a drone feed taken a few days ago of small columns of Russian troops simply walking across the border, unopposed.
He says officials had claimed that defences were being built at huge cost, but in his view, those defences simply weren’t there. “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal”.
[...]
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