Moscow’s forces have captured at least nine villages and settlements near Kharkiv in a push that analysts say is intended to stretch Ukrainian troops and divert them from fighting elsewhere.

​Moscow’s forces have captured at least nine villages and settlements near Kharkiv in a push that analysts say is intended to stretch Ukrainian troops and divert them from fighting elsewhere. NYT > World NewsRussian Invasion of Ukraine (2022), Defense and Military Forces, Evacuations and Evacuees, Kharkiv (Ukraine), Russia, Ukraine