Kharkiv Action Reports Reveal Russian Casualties, POWs, Armor Losses

Ukrainian defenders in the Kharkiv sector, including the 42nd Mechanized Brigade suggest that the Russian attacking units are suffering significant losses of personnel and equipment. JL 

Militarnyi reports:

The Ukrainian military showed seven captured Russian soldiers who stormed the positions of the Defense Forces in the Kharkiv region. The 42nd Mechanized Brigade said that during the offensive towards Kharkiv, four infantry fighting vehicles had been destroyed near Pilna. “The buildup of the Russian forces near the borders was expected. “The Perun drone unit of the 42nd Brigade were engaged. 4 IFVs were destroyed along with the personnel (who) the Russians sent into minefields as cannon fodder, without the necessary ammunition and weapons.”

In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian military eliminated part of the assault unit of the invaders and captured prisoners.

The Ukrainian military showed seven captured Russian soldiers who stormed the positions of the Defense Forces in the Kharkiv region.

“The first prisoners from the Kharkiv sector. The command sends its personnel to minefields as cannon fodder, without the necessary ammunition and weapons,” the military said.

Captured:

• Senior Lieutenant Alexander Akimenko
• Yarlikov Pavel Vladimirovich
• Fateev Denis Sergeevich
• Kryukov Sergey Alexandrovich
• Nekrasov Yevgeny Pavlovich
• Krymenko Viktor Genadievich
• Undisclosed, expressed a desire to join the “Russian Volunteer Corps”

The prisoners of the Russian military who were captured in the Kharkiv region. May 2024. Ukraine. Frame from the video Telegram/OperativnoZSU

In the 42nd Mechanized Brigade, they said that during the offensive of the invaders towards Kharkiv, 4 infantry fighting vehicles had been destroyed near the village of Pilna.

 

“The drones of the Perun unit of the 42nd Brigade were engaged. 4 IFVs were destroyed along with the personnel,” the military said.

Russian BMPs were destroyed in the Kharkiv region. May 2024. Ukraine. Frame from the video of the 42nd Brigade

Now the fighting continues in Strilecha, Pilna, Borysivka, in the area of Oliynyky and Ohirtseve in the north of the Kharkiv region.

 

According to Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the RMA of the Kharkiv region, three settlements are currently located in the gray zone: Pilna, Strilecha and Borysivka.

“Fighting continues on their territory and on the territory of four more settlements,” Syniehubov said.

Also, Oleh Syniehubov said that Russians had tried to advance in other directions in the Kharkiv region.

 

“There was shelling, there were attempts to infiltrate sabotage and reconnaissance groups but all of them were stopped. We do not record activity in these areas now,” said Syniehubov.

“In order to break through the border and go to the north of the Kharkiv region, the Russian troops used various tactics,” says the Head of the RMA.

 

“There were cases of one of the settlements – 20 people came in, 30 people in the other, another used armored vehicles. For example, the enemy attracted tanks to the Vovchansk direction, tried to enter our territory. They were partially destroyed, partially withdrawn. A little to the left, closer to Liptsy, the enemy entered with infantry, tried to advance. This is not to say that these are sabotage and intelligence groups, these are small groups, with which the enemy tries to find our positions, our territories. In fact, the enemy makes the reconnaissance by combat,” says Syniehubov.

The situation in Kharkiv region as of May 10, 2024 according to the Deepstatemap

Despite the attempt of the offensive, the Russian Federation continues to work on the construction of fortifications.

 

“All fortifications that we built in 2022-2023, even now, in 2024, are used by our military for its intended purpose. We are not stopping at the implementation of this project,” Syniehubov said.

Ukrainian line of defense in the Kharkiv region. March 2024. Ukraine. Photo credits: Oleh Syniehubov

“The buildup of the Russian forces near the borders is expected,” says the head of the regional administration.

 

“They have already built up these forces. They are already there. Next, we simply have to adequately counteract in one direction or another. The figure was about 35 thousand troops plus equipment, so there is nothing unusual for us,” Syniehubov said.

As previously reported, yesterday the first photos of the losses of Russian armored vehicles near the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Kharkiv region appeared on the network.