The large-scale offensive planned by Moscow in eastern Ukraine is being prepared on a grand scale. Satellite images from the weekend show a Russian military convoy about 13 kilometers long near Welykyj Burluk, a Russian-occupied town in the far east of Ukraine, nearly 100 kilometers from Kharkiv.
According to information from the AFP news agency, the convoy is made up of tanks, armored transport vehicles, heavy artillery and supply trucks.
Military expert Karner expects ‘pincer attack’
After withdrawing from northern Ukraine, the Russian military is gathering troops for further offensives in the east. As PULS 24 military expert Gerald Karner suspects, Ukrainian units fighting there must be surrounded and isolated in a pincer movement from the north and southeast.
Military officer and strategist Gerald Karner on the situation in Ukraine and the planned Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Dnipro Airport “Completely Destroyed”
According to the Defense Ministry in Moscow, the Russian military has destroyed dozens of other military objects in Ukraine with further heavy rocket attacks. A total of 86 objects were hit in one day, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday in Moscow.
According to Ukrainian sources, Dnipro airport was “completely destroyed”. Both the airport and surrounding infrastructure were destroyed, the governor in charge of the city in eastern Ukraine said on Telegram on Sunday. It is currently being checked for fatalities.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the headquarters and base of the Dnipro Battalion were destroyed. The base is said to have also served as a collection point for mercenaries. This information could not be verified.
Air defenses hit near Kharkiv
Major General Konashenkov said the S-300 air defense system launch complexes were also destroyed at the military airfield in the garrison town of Chuhuiv in the Kharkov region, as well as several drones, two ammunition stores and three fuel depots. in eastern Ukraine.
Pro-Russian separatists announced Sunday that Ukrainian troops had seized control of two foreign ships and their crews in the port of Mariupol and were bombing the city from there. The separatists, with the support of the Russian army, are fighting to take full control of Mariupol in the Sea of Azov. Russia invaded the neighboring country a good seven weeks ago.