Fighting in eastern Ukraine reaches peak intensity. Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, announced this during a briefing at the Ukraine Media Center - Ukrinform.

He stated that the Russian occupation troops did not stop conducting offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, ensure the stability of the land corridor from the Rostov region to the WTO of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and block the sea lanes of Ukraine in the northwestern part of the Chernoy.

" The fighting has reached its maximum intensity, the Russian occupation forces are firing along the entire collision zone and are trying to hit deep into our defenses with artillery,"

According to him, in the Donbass, an assault is being carried out simultaneously in several directions.. The most fierce battles are going on in the Severodonetsk, Bakhmut and Kurakhovsky directions.

Motuzyanyk also said that over the past week, the invaders forcibly took about 3,000 Ukrainians to a filtration camp in the Bezymyanny area (the city is located 20 km east of Mariupol), more than 300 of whom are children. At the same time, Ukrainians who do not pass the filtration are recognized as "

Occupiers subject Ukrainians to interrogations, torture, threaten execution and force them to cooperate while holding Ukrainians under arrest.

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Earlier, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that the next few weeks will be very difficult in Donbas..