Russian Troops Enter Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Kyiv, Feb 27: Russian troops have entered Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, Advisor to Ukrainian Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said on Sunday, the fourth day since Russia’s invasion.
The Guardian quoted Gerashchenko as saying that there was fighting in the centre of the city and in the area of the Hydropark.
He said, “A group of special forces of the Russian Federation has just burst into the city through Alekseevka. On the street.” “There has been a breakthrough in light equipment including in the central part of the city,” Kyiv Independent quoted Oleg Sinegubov, Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, as saying.
Earlier, the Russian forces had blown up a natural gas pipeline in Kharkiv, the Ukrainian state service of special communications said.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Major General Borys Kremenetsky has said that Ukraine had captured around 200 Russian soldiers, some of them not more than 19-years-old. Speaking in Washington on Saturday, he said, “We captured around 200 Russian soldiers, some of them 19 years old, not trained at all, badly equipped. We treat them according to Geneva Convention, according to international humanitarian law”.
He further said that the captured Russians were allowed to “call their parents” and given food and water. He also urged the Pentagon for more support with military aid. “There is list of crucial requirements, and we still need more capabilities. I can assure you that what we received already were used in a proper way,” he added.
