'Fierce battle' sparked by Russia's new northeast offensive, says Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says a "fierce battle" is underway in his country's northeastern Kharkiv region after Moscow launched a surprise new offensive there on Friday morning.
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00:00Russia started a new wave of counter-offensive actions in this direction. Ukraine met them there with our troops, brigades and artillery.
00:12It is important that they can increase and tighten their forces in this direction. This is a fact.
00:21But our troops and military command knew about it and calculated their forces.
00:29Now there is a fierce battle in this direction with artillery fire.
00:35As far as I know, at 7-8 a.m. we met them with artillery fire.
00:49And I think that at that time we stopped them with artillery fire.