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The Russian army has sent armored vehicles and cannons as reinforcements in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv where kyiv is waging an intense counter-offensive, Russian news agencies said on Friday based on images transmitted by the Ministry of Defense .
In these images, also broadcast by the official media of the Russian army Zvezda, we can see several military trucks towing heavy guns and armored vehicles, on a dirt road, then an asphalt road.
The Russian Ministry of Defense did not immediately make an official announcement.
"Hard fighting"
The announcement of this deployment of reinforcements comes as Ukrainian forces claimed to have made a breakthrough in the Kharkiv region, bordering Russia in northeastern Ukraine.
On Wednesday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that kyiv forces had recaptured several localities in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine from Russian troops, without giving any details.
The sending of Russian reinforcements to Ukraine shows that Moscow is paying “a huge price”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.
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A senior Moscow occupation administration official in the region, Vitali Gantchev, told Russia's Rossiia 24 TV channel on Friday that "fierce fighting" was underway around the town of Balaklia, which Kyiv said. Thursday to have won back.
“We no longer control Balaklia.
Attempts to dislodge Ukrainian forces are ongoing, but the fighting there is fierce and our troops are held up on the outskirts (of the city),” he said.
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According to him, heavy fighting is also taking place near the town of Shevchenkove, still in the Kharkiv region.
“There too, the Ukrainian armed forces are trying to break through the defenses.
Reserves from Russia have been sent there, our troops are fighting back,” said Vitali Gantchev.