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General Staff: Russia is trying to complete preparation for the offensive in eastern Ukraine

In the Donetsk direction, the occupants have relocated a division of medium-range surface-to-air missile systems C-350 Vityaz to the area near the city of Taganrog in the Rostov region.

General Staff: Russia is trying to complete preparation for the offensive in eastern Ukraine
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The rf tries to complete preparation in eastern Ukraine. For that, they regroup and accumulate control systems and material and technical provision of the occupational forces.

It was informed by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The brief as of 10 April, 6 p.m., states russia relocates its battalion tactical groups from the Eastern and Central military districts closer to the Ukrainian border in the Belgorod, Voronezh, and Kursk regions.

“The intensification of the enemy’s efforts in the direction of Slovyansk is possible, and in part of the forces in the direction to Barvinkove. Intensification of fighting for the city of Kharkiv is probable,” stressed the General Staff.

In the Donetsk and Tavria directions, the aggressor country focuses their main efforts on taking control over Popasna, Rubizhne, Nyzhne, and Novobakhmutivka. The occupants keep on attempting to take full control over Mariupol.

“For the purpose of strengthening their air defense system in the Donetsk direction, the occupants relocated a division of medium-range surface-to-air missile systems C-350 Vityaz” to the area near the city of Taganrog in the Rostov region,” they said in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

To restore the losses, russian leadership relocates additional weapons to the territory of Ukraine as well as additional military equipment from the Southern military district.

According to the Ukrainian military command, the enemy will attempt to break through Ukrainian defense and advance towards the settlements of Severodonetsk, Popasna, Avdiivka, and Kurakhove.

Meanwhile, no significant changes in the situation and activity of the russian troops have been seen in the Volyn, Polissia, and Siversk directions.

In the Slobozhanshchyna direction, the occupants continue a partial blockade of Kharkiv, and make attempts to break through the defense of the Ukrainian forces near the town of Izium, and make a reconnaissance of possible directions of further actions.

In the direction of Pivdenny Bug, the russian army tried to take lost positions near Osokorivka. The enemy will probably try to reach the administrative border of the Kherson region.

“The enemy has certain problems of material and technical logistics of the grouping of the forces of the Western military district. Lack of spare parts, certain types of artillery ammunition, and shortcomings in the of material and technical means storage and supply system,” stressed the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The occupational forces continue restricting the rights and freedoms of the Ukrainians, robbing, and killing civilians on the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.

Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informed that over 80% of the personnel of some units of the occupant refuse to return to the war in Ukraine.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine also stressed that the air defense will shoot down russian jets, which the aggressor will try to relocate to Prydnistrovya across Ukraine.

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