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Fierce positional battles continue in the Kharkiv region. Amid the counter offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near the capital of the region, Russian forces advance in the areas of Izyum and Liman.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the AFU deploy their forces in the civilian medical facilities. The agency reported that the AFU deployed artillery pieces and equipped an ammunition depot on the territory of the city hospital #8 in Kharkiv. The staff and patients were forced to leave the building under the threat of being shot.
On May 6, mass explosions thundered the northwestern outskirts of Kharkiv. Residents reported shelling on the village of Zhukovsky and the Severnaya Saltovka region of the city.
Fires and explosions in North Saltovka in Kharkiv:
Near Kharkiv, units of the DPR and LPR and the Russian National Guard withdrew from the town of Russkaya Lozova and neighboring villages. The village of Stary Saltov was occupied by fighters of the nationalist Kraken special unit of the Azov national militia.
The footage shows fighting to the north of Kharkiv.
After the Russian units withdrew from Stary Saltov, the Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up the bridge over the river, the threat of encirclement increased. The Russian units are likely to leave the northern outskirts of Kharkiv.
In order to prevent the Russian Armed Forces from being locked in the cauldron, their military command decided to withdraw Russian units from Tsirkun, Cherkasskiye Tishek, and Lipsy.
Assault units of the AFU entered Lipsy this morning. At that time, the Russian Armed Forces were no longer in the village. The Russian units had withdrawn to the north. The Russian Armed Forces now control a 7-8-kilometer buffer zone to the north of Kharkiv.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up a bridge across the Murom River in the village of Russkiye Tishki near Kharkiv.
In the village of Tsirkuny, Ukrainian units are breaking into basements, checking the phones of locals, looking for agents and Russian collaborators.
In Odnorobivka, members of the Ukrainian Aydar unit prevent locals from leaving the village, using them as a human shield from Russian artillery strikes.
Destroyed Ukrainian Grad MLRS near Kharkiv
Fighting near the Russian border north of Kharkiv is still going on. Two AFU tanks were destroyed near Tsupovka in another attempt to break through Russian defenses.
The Ukrainian military command is trying to take maximum advantage of the low concentration of Russian forces in the area near Kharkiv and is actively attempting to counter attack.
