- A Ukrainian commander complained that promised defenses in Kharkiv are missing, per the BBC.
- Denys Yaroslavskyi called the lack of defense like mines a “betrayal,” blaming corruption or negligence.
- Russia has launched a renewed assault on Kharkiv, with an estimated 35,000 troops pushing on the northern front.
“There was no first line of defense,” Denys Yaroslavskyi told the BBC, which reported from Vovchansk on Sunday. “We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined fields.”
Jonathan Beale, a defense correspondent at the outlet, wrote that Yaroslavskyi showed him drone footage of Russian troops walking past Ukraine’s northeastern border without resistance.