Ukrainian troops do not retreat, but temporarily move to more convenient positions. This is the principle of mobile defense, designed to exhaust the enemy as much as possible.. The speaker of the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanyk spoke about this during a briefing, commenting on the situation at the front in the Lugansk region..

Answering the question of one of the foreign journalists about whether it is true that the Ukrainian troops in the east are retreating, Motuzyanyk denied such an assessment, calling it a maneuverable defense.

" But the fact that Ukrainian troops are retreating there is a completely wrong interpretation of these actions.. Ukrainian units conduct a mobile defense in certain sectors of the front - they change positions, step aside, and under favorable conditions conduct a counteroffensive.. We have a broad goal - to liberate the entire territory of our country, and the situation in the east is very dynamic and changing rapidly,"

In addition, the speaker of the Ministry of Defense noted that there are certain territories and settlements that can change hands and this is normal in the current realities..

" This is absolutely not the case,"

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Recall that on the morning of May 24, the Russians entered the city of Svetlodarsk and even raised their tricolor there after the Ukrainian Armed Forces left the city, retreating to previously fortified positions nearby. Today, journalist Yuri Butusov said that the Russian invaders were able to enter the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway near the villages of Nagornoye and Belogorovka. However, later the head of the Lugansk VGA Sergei Gaidai denied this information, saying that the Russians were unable to cut the highway and access to Severodonetsk was preserved..