CNN correspondent Sam Kiley visited Kharkiv, where the Ukrainian military told him that they were waiting for a new offensive by Russian troops.

In his report, Kylie conveys the words of the representative of the Ukrainian army, Andriy Mohyla, who showed photos of Russian positions near Kharkov, taken by intelligence. They show equipment hidden in the forest, as well as self-propelled artillery.. "

In response to his question about when such an offensive might occur, Mogila said: “I can’t say 100%, but I’m generally confident that we will see it in the coming week.”.

In May, the Ukrainian army managed to liberate a significant part of the areas adjacent to Kharkov, after which the number of shelling of the city decreased. However, in recent weeks, Russian troops have managed to regain control of part of the territory and began to actively shoot at Kharkov and the region again..

At the same time, Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said on the Feygin-Live YouTube channel that the Russian army is not capable of taking Kharkiv, and the main task of the shelling is “to prevent our troops from continuing to move through the Pechenezh reservoir [. ] and threaten the supply of the Izyum group"

Arestovich recalled that on Wednesday, as a result of shelling in one of the villages of the Kharkiv region, closer to Izyum, five women were killed at once, who at the time of the mine hit were near the entrance of a multi-storey building.

The head of the Kharkiv regional administration Oleg Sinegubov wrote about the same in his telegram channel.. He describes the situation in the region as follows: " In the Kharkiv direction, the Russian invaders are trying to restrain the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and prevent them from reaching the state border, strengthening their positions. This indicates that we do not expect the Chernihiv or Kyiv scenarios, when Russian troops retreated under pressure from the Armed Forces of Ukraine"