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Ukrainian forces also recaptured Kharkiv, the second city after the capital Kiiu.
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has entered into the largest military exercise ever involving Sweden and Finland.
Reporter Kim Yong-cheol reports.
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Ukrainian soldiers pose for a commemorative photo after reaching the Russian border near the second city of Kharkiv.
The Ukrainian government announced at the end of February that it had successfully recaptured the Russian army that had entered Kharkiv four days after the start of the war.
[President Zelensky/Ukraine: On behalf of all Ukrainians and my family, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the members of the 227th Battalion, 127th Brigade of the Ukrainian Homeland Defense Force in Kharkiv.]
As the Russian army retreated from Kharkiv after the capital, Kiiu, the northeastern part of Ukraine Freed from the Russian threat.
On the other hand, southern Mariupol was completely handed over to the Russians.
264 wounded Ukrainian soldiers during the last protest at the Azoustal Works were transferred to a medical facility in the pro-Russian rebel region of the Donetsk Republic.
[Zelensky / President of Ukraine: It is a difficult day.
But it is to save our country and its people.
Ukrainian heroes must survive.]
Russian forces have been focusing their offensive on the rebel-controlled Donbas area after missile strikes in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, but it is not known that much progress has been made.
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has entered into a large-scale military exercise involving Sweden and Finland, which recently announced their joining.
This joint NATO exercise, including the deployment of the US Truman Carrier Group in the Mediterranean, is evaluated as the largest in history from the Arctic Ocean to the Balkans.
(Video editing: Kim Byung-jik)