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Some of the Russian troops have been relocated from Ukraine to Russia’s Kursk Oblast in order for Russia to fight off Ukraine’s surprise offensive.
That’s according to POLITICO.
“Russia has relocated some of its units from both Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine’s south,” Dmytro Lykhoviy, a Ukrainian army spokesman said in a comment to the media.
And yet, he added that Russians had enough time to accumulate a rather large number of personnel, in particular in the Zaporizhzhia region, while the number of units redeployed remains relatively small.
“We must still understand whether it is a smokescreen activity,” Lykhoviy suggested.
Also, Russia continues its offensive on Pokrovsk and the Donetsk region in general.
Previously, Vladimir Putin appealed to the Ministry of Defence of Russia to “squeeze out, to knock out the enemy from our [Russia’s] territories” as Kursk Oblast governor reported that 28 settlements in the region were under Ukraine’s control.
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