The Daily Populous Tuesday July 16th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by newsukraine.rbc.ua and submitted by new974517

The Russian offensive in the Kharkiv region has failed. The Ukrainian forces have stopped the enemy, says President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, responding to RBC-Ukraine at a press conference.

"In the Kharkiv region, humans or non-humans of Russia have been stopped. Their offensive has failed. All experts acknowledge that Russia's offensive on Kharkiv has failed. I would say that it was stopped by our soldiers and appropriate weapons. Anyway, let's highly appreciate the service of our guys," the president said.

Russian troops became more active in the north of the Kharkiv region in May. They also tried to break through the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Vovchansk. Russia intensified attacks on frontline settlements of Ukraine, after which Kyiv's Western partners eased restrictions on using their weapons against Russian territory.

In the end, the Russian offensive, as the president said, failed. For now, they are bogged down in that direction.

Read more about whether Russia can launch a new offensive in RBC-Ukraine's article "Russia's summer strategy: Will enemy launch new offensive and expand the front."

rimalp on July 16th, 2024 at 13:01 UTC »

The big counter offensive failed too tho.

It's a stagnant situation. And the West continues to only do the bare minimum to make Russia not progress any further. Instead of supplying and supporting Ukraine with what it needs to actually make a change.

Wild-Word4967 on July 16th, 2024 at 07:34 UTC »

At this point Putin is just trying to wait for Trump to get into office and pull all support for Ukraine.

Apprehensive_Sleep_4 on July 16th, 2024 at 04:45 UTC »

Good news that happened. Hoping that next is that all of the Russian Army will be removed in all of the Ukrainian territory including Crimea.