Ukraine's 'hawk and mouse' Kharkiv counteroffensive is nearing Russia's border, threatening supply l

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A Ukrainian counteroffensive north and east of Kharkiv has pushed Russian forces mostly out of shelling range of Ukraine's second-largest city, under near-constant attack since Moscow tried to surround it at the beginning of its invasion. Ukraine's armed forces now regularly report recapturing towns and villages from retreating Russian troops.

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The war in the Kharkiv region, costly to both sides, is "now a game of hawk and mouse, where each side's drones circle constantly, trying to pinpoint the enemy's tanks and guns, for targeting by artillery," BBC correspondent Quentin Sommerville reports from one newly recaptured village.

The fight has mostly involved the two sides "lobbing artillery shells at one another, sometimes from dozens of miles away," New York Times correspondent Michael Schwirtz reports from the Kharkiv front lines. "But at some points along the zigzagging eastern front, the combat becomes a vicious and intimate dance, granting enemy forces fleeting glimpses of one another as they jockey for command of hills and makeshift redoubts in towns and villages blasted apart by shells."

"Ukrainian gains, modest for now, could have strategic implications for Russia's war in the Donbas to the southeast," the BBC's Sommerville reports. Ukrainian forces have pushed Russian lines within a handful of miles from Russia's borders in some places — Ukrainian shelling killed a Russian civilian in a village six miles into Russia, the governor of Belgorod region said — threatening to cut off the main ground supply routes for Russia's eastern offensive.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraines-hawk-mouse-kharkiv-counteroffensive-071655230.html

[orwell]

1. At some point...

...will Ukraine start taking out Russian rail lines inside Russia.

Sauce for the goose...

[KS Toronado]

2. Thought we did already.

along with fuel storage and 1 or 2 refineries inside Russia