UK intelligence says Russia has not changed its end goal with Ukraine and seeks to assert its own regional dominance and force Kyiv to abandon its Euro-Atlantic orientation, even as Moscow's operational focus has shifted to eastern Ukraine.
According to a tweet by the British Ministry of Defense, Russian troops continue to redeploy military and support equipment from Belarus to eastern Ukraine, including to places near Kharkiv and Severodonetsk..
Russian artillery continues to strike at Ukrainian positions in the east of the country, where Russia plans to resume offensive activity, intelligence added..