Russia is preparing a development phase
Russia is likely to the next stage of its appearance in Ukraine, warned the representative of the Ukrainian armed forces.
(Recall that the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu ordered the increase in the movement of Russian troops in Ukraine “in all directions”).
The statements by the US Secretary of Defense appeared to be a clear response to a series of strikes sent to Ukraine on 30 logistics and tourism sites using multiple rocket launchers that were installed by the West. These mid-supply strikes greatly increase Russia’s offensive capability, a Ukrainian defense official said Friday.
The Ukrainian cases showed signs of a regrouping of detected cases on the scale by the Ukrainian military in Slovyansk in Russia.
The British Ministry of Defense said on Sunday that Russia is strengthening its defensive positions in relation to the occupied territories in southern Ukraine.
The reinforcement includes strengthening of forces and equipment, defensive depots between Mariupol and Zaporozhye, as well as in Kherson, while Russian forces in Melitopol are also stepping up security measures, the ministry noted on Twitter.
While Western deliveries of long-range weapons have taken place in Ukraine on the battlefield, Russian rockets and shells have hit cities in what Kyiv has said dozens of deaths in recent days.
“It’s not just air and sea missile strikes,” Vadym Skibitsky, a spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence, explained on Saturday. – We see shelling of the entire line of contact, the entire front line. Tactical aviation and combat helicopters are actively used.
Skibitsky noted that Russia is now preparing for the next stage of the offensive.
Ukrainian authorities say at least 40 people have died since Thursday as a result of shelling of Ukrainian regions by regional forces. Of these, 24 people, including three children, died in Vinnitsa.
On Friday evening, the city of Chuguev, Kharkov region, was fired at with rockets. Three people were killed, including a 70-year-old woman; three wounded.
This was announced by the Governor of the region Oleg Sinegubov.
In the south, more than 50 building structures “Grad” fired at the city of Nikopol on the Dnieper River, resulting in a catastrophe of two people, said the governor of the region Valentin Reznichenko.
On Saturday, during his presidential tour of the Middle East, Joe Biden pointed out that the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine is an example of “efforts to undermine the rules-based world order.”