Brussels: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated Friday that President Vladimir Putin’s resolution to ship reinforcements to Ukraine’s Kharkiv area underlined the massive losses Russia’s forces are taking in its battle.

“There are an enormous selection of Russian forces which are in Ukraine and sadly, tragically, horrifically President Putin has demonstrated that he’s going to throw a large number of folks into this at large price to Russia, at large price to its long term,” he stated.

Blinken was once talking to journalists at NATO headquarters in Brussels after talks with the Western alliance’s Secretary Common Jens Stoltenberg, at some point after the manager US diplomat had visited Kyiv.

Previous, Russian information businesses had reported that Moscow’s forces had been redeploying to the Kharkiv area in keeping with a large-scale Ukrainian counter-offensive.

The TASS and RIA Novosti information businesses shared video from Russia’s defence ministry, appearing the motion of army {hardware} on a paved street, some with Russian flags and bearing the letter “Z”, a logo of Russia’s army marketing campaign.

Native Moscow-installed reliable Vitaliy Ganchev stated in televised remarks that “fierce battles” had been beneath means close to Balakliya, a the city in Kharkiv area that Ukraine stated it had recaptured on Thursday.