Russia attacks this one Ukrainian village every single day. It never works, the border service says

Russian forces are storming Ukrainian border-guard positions in the northeast almost every day, and Ukraine’s border guards keep throwing them back, according to Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service. The push centers on the Kharkiv frontier, where Russia leans on drones, artillery, and warplanes but cannot move the line. Its infantry is taking heavy losses for nothing.

Russia attacks one Kharkiv village almost daily

The near-daily assaults run toward Vovchanski Khutory, a settlement in northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border. Russian infantry tries to seize the positions there nearly every day, said Andrii Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service. The border units hold, and the attackers gain nothing. Demchenko laid it out in a national TV broadcast, Ukrinform reported.

“If we talk about attempts to advance with infantry groups, then recently I can point to the Kharkiv Oblast direction, in particular toward the settlement of Vovchanski Khutory. Practically every day in recent days the enemy keeps trying to storm the positions held by border units, but, fortunately, the enemy cannot succeed and instead suffers heavy losses, including occupiers taken prisoner,” Demchenko said.

Ukrainian defenders have repelled these waves before. Russia switched to small infantry groups around Vovchansk after drones turned its armor into easy targets.

The shelling of Ukraine’s border areas in Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv oblasts does not stop, Demchenko said. Russia relies mostly on drones, and also uses artillery and aviation. 

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Russia has also stepped up its infantry assaults on the Kupiansk direction, Demchenko said. Russian assault groups keep hitting Ukrainian defensive lines on the Pokrovsk direction as well.

Earlier, Russia scaled back the activity of its sabotage-and-reconnaissance groups along the Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv border, the same service reported.