While preparing for a full-scale offensive to completely occupy Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts and carving a land ground corridor to the occupied Crimea, russia’s occupation forces are “testing” Ukraine’s defenders.
According to the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, russia’s army is currently completing their regrouping and trying to identify the most vulnerable spots of the Armed Forces in order to launch a large-scale offensive in the Donetsk operational region.
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In addition, it is claimed that "all battalion-tactical groups are now moving to the east of Ukraine that have been concentrated on the territory of Belarus, near our northern borders so far."
Defense Express reminds, that as of April 18 it was reported that occupiers still take out damaged in the war armor from Belarus territory.
At the same time, General Staff of Ukraine reports, that enemy conducts the most active actions in Slobozhansk and Donetsk regions, but Ukraine’s defenders are successfully repelling russia’s attacks and destroying enemy armor.
Apart from that, General Staff reports on the Kharkiv direction progress: “According to available information, units of the 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, which took an active part in the mass killings, torture and rape of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, and now operating in the area of Izyum and have already suffered losses.”
The head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleg Synegubov also reports on the success in Kharkiv Oblast: “We have good news from the front. Our Armed Forces carried out a successful counterattack, launched offensive operations against the enemy yesterday morning. Fierce fighting continued during the day.”
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