Fire burns from a strike minutes earlier in the village of Vil’cha near Vovchansk, Ukraine. Photograph: Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times

Ukraine’s top commander warned on Friday of “heavy battles” looming on the war’s new front in the northeastern Kharkiv region as Russian president Vladimir Putin said Moscow was carving out a “buffer zone” in the area.…

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