The head of the State Administration of the Kharkiv region promised to release the villages previously controlled by Russia

“The settlements that were under the control of our forces will be systematically liberated,” TASS quoted him as saying.

According to Ganchev, fierce battles are now taking place on the front line.

On February 10, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian Armed Forces had completed the liberation of the Dvurechnoye settlement in the Kharkov region.

Retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, a military expert, noted that foreigners from Western Europe and Poland are arriving in Ukrainian units in Kharkov and the region.