In the northern direction, Russian troops have been withdrawn from Ukraine to Belarus and the Russian Federation, at least some of these forces will be transferred to the east. This is stated in today's report of the British Ministry of Defense.

Many of these forces require significant reinforcements before they are ready to deploy further east, with any massive redeployment from the north likely to take at least a week..

Russian shelling of cities in the east and south continues, and Russian forces have moved further south from the strategically important city of Izyum, which remained under their control, the department clarifies..

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Recall, following the results of yesterday, Ukrainian soldiers captured the strategic position of the Russians in the Lugansk region and pushed back Russian units from the city of Kremennaya by 6-10 km.

The invaders blew up the bridge and blocked the only Ukrainian-controlled route for evacuation trains from Donbass. We are talking about an airstrike on an overpass near Barvenkove in the south of the Kharkiv region..

Residents of this, as well as Donetsk and Luhansk regions, are advised to evacuate as soon as possible. A similar statement was made by Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov, who called on women, children, pensioners and those who are not involved in critical infrastructure to leave for safer areas..

According to today's data from the General Staff, the enemy is accumulating forces in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. There remains the possibility of missile and air strikes from the territory of Belarus on the territory of Ukraine.