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Russia's move on Kharkiv has bogged down.
2 weeks after Russia’s move on Ukraine’s 2nd-largest city stopped moving, meeting fierce resistance from a number of hardened Ukrainian brigades and specialist units sent there from the eastern and southern fronts.

Kyiv declared forces had gone on counterattack in some areas, particularly around the border town of Vovchansk with U.S. majority weapon of which Ukrainian forces control as of June 13, according to open source info. By June 8, Presiden Zelensky declared Russia had “failed” in its offensive on Kharkiv, b'ccs Ukrainian forces were effectively “holding and destroying” the enemy in the area.

Making a judgment regarding the failure or success of an operation depends on the initial strategic goals of the operation in the first place.
Analysts and officials were generally in agreement that Russian forces had little to no chance — and thus no intent — to actually surround or enter Kharkiv itself.

“It's not surprising that the Kharkiv offensive did not advance that far,” said military expert Rob Lee, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to the Kyiv Independent, “because we knew that Ukraine had a better defense prepared and we knew pretty early on that Ukraine moved a number of units to strengthen that defense.”