(14 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kharkiv region – 13 may 2024
1. Soldier preparing drone for flight ++NIGHT SHOTS++
2. Drone pilot putting visor on
3. Close on hands on drone controller
4. View of screen showing drone flying into target
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) nom de guerre "Khepry", drone navigator of the ACHILLES battalion of the 92nd brigade:
"The motivation, as in most cases, is to protect my family and I simply don’t want Russia to come here, I really don’t want it."
6. Soldier affixing explosive to drone
7. View of screen showing drone flying into target
8. Wide of Kharkiv Regional Military Administration building, damaged by Russian missile
9. Close of poster of Ukrainian soldier on building
10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Yurii ‘Achilles’ Fedorenko, commander of the ACHILLES battalion of the 92nd brigade:
"U.S. aid is already arriving, but in small batches. Accordingly, when the defence forces receive the necessary number of forces and means, we will be able to deprive the enemy of the opportunity to carry out shock-assault actions in active defence on the enemy’s key directions. It will already be about the fact that we will squeeze the enemy from key positions. The next two months will be the most difficult for the Ukrainian defense forces. But after these two months, we will have a completely different situation on the battlefield in a number of directions and the tactical instinct will be fully intercepted on the side of the defense forces."
11. View of soldiers in drone bunker
12. Various of soldiers preparing drone
13. Various of the poster reading (Ukrainian): "City-hero Kharkiv"
STORYLINE:
From the sky, the Ukrainian drone unit commander has a bird’s eye view of Russia’s renewed offensive play out in the country’s war-ravaged northeast.
In one area, a Russian infantry unit were able to walk into a village and occupy it, according to a drone operator of the ACHILLES battalion of the 92nd brigade.
The depopulated village of Strilecha is one of a string of villages captured by Russian forces in the past few days.
Manul, another Ukrainian serviceman, spotted a military car cast in night-vision grayscale.
The suicide drone was prepared for flight, moments later the vehicle was struck. But the battle is far from over, “This is just the beginning,” he said.
Russia’s sudden offensive along the border with Kharkiv has jolted the region, opening a new front in the two-year war, and putting additional pressure on already overstretched Ukrainian forces.
Precious reserves meant to halt Russia’s advance elsewhere along the 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) contact line were rotated out to stabilize the new front and limit Moscow’s advance.
The next two months are expected to be the most difficult for Ukraine since the war began.
Ukrainian soldiers are concerned Russia will open more fronts along its border to further overstretch its limited manpower and exploit the window of time before promised Western military aid arrives.
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