British officials said that Russia repeatedly ambushed the Kharkov city to force Ukraine to maintain defense forces, unable to take troops to another place to counterattack.

Although the battle line in the region has rarely changed since May, Ukraine's second largest city was one of the most continuous artillery places since war broke out.

Kharkov City is located about 15 km from the front line and in the range of most of the firecrackers of the Russian force.

Russian forces controlled small areas in Kharkov province, but continued to deploy local raids and exploration attacks against Ukrainian forces.

Russia has not commented on the British Defense Department's report.

Russian paratroopers sat on the armor with Kornet anti -tank missiles in Ukraine on July 27.

Russia launched a special military campaign on February 24 for demilitaries and non -fascist Ukraine.

Russia at the end of March shifted the center of the campaign to the Donbass region, their forces in Kharkov province backed away from the city of the same name and was said to switch to defensive state before Ukraine counterattacks.

The Russian forces and the separatist faction on August 13 liberated the Udy Residential Area in Kharkov province.

To prevent panic and threatening Ukrainian soldiers, Kraken nationalist elements fired 100 soldiers of the Mechanical Infantry Brigade No. 58 to abandon their position, the Russian Defense Ministry on August 19 said

The Ukrainian battlefield situation after more than 5 months of fighting.

The top 6 countries in Europe did not make any military assistance commitment to Ukraine in July, showing that the aid could run out.

President Putin called Crimea the mecca of Russia, but the peninsula recently continuously inspired attacks that caused serious damage.