Russian troops want to surround the grouping of the Joint Forces and reach the administrative borders of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports on Facebook.

" In order to constrain the actions of our troops, it will continue to hold separate lines in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kiev and Chernihiv regions, probably in areas in close proximity to the state border of Ukraine (with the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, respectively),” the General Staff noted..

It is noted that enhanced measures of operational and combat training continue in the units of the armed forces of Belarus..

The enemy is building up the air defense system in the border regions of Ukraine.

In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, the enemy conducts assault operations in order to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region.

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Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said that Russia would withdraw from all territories of Ukraine, except for the south and east, and would try to dig in tightly there, reduce losses and dictate its terms.