Ukraine says Russian forces are withdrawing from around Ukraine's second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks.
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Ukraise"appears to have won the Battle of Kharkiv." the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said."Ukrainian forces prevented Russian troops from encircling, let alone seizing Kharkiv, and then expelled them from around the city, as they did to Russian forces attempting to seize Kyiv."
"The fate of a large portion of the Ukrainian army is being decided - there are about 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers," he said. Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation that Ukrainians were doing everything they could to drive out the Russians, but"no one today can predict how long this war will last."
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the war in Ukraine aiming to thwart NATO's expansion in Eastern Europe. But the invasion of Ukraine has other countries along Russia's flank worried they could be next.
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