UkraineRussia War, Russian troops have left the Sumy regionlocal governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi said on Facebook. The region, he stressed, is now free of Russian units. When people hear explosions, it’s because rescuers and explosives experts are neutralizing the ammunition left behind, he added. Zhyvytskyi then warned that the region was still not safe as mines were being laid in many areas and warned people not to drive on the side of the road, not to use forest trails and to approach undamaged military equipment.
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Shyvytskyi previously claimed that Russian troops began withdrawing from the region on Sunday. Along with the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions, the Sumy region was among the areas attacked by Russian troops since the war began more than a month ago. Russia recently announced that it would focus its combat operations on eastern Ukraine.
“Russian forces have now completely withdrawn from northern Ukraine to Belarus and Russia. At least some of these forces will be transferred to eastern Ukraine to fight in Donbass,” says British intelligence in a new update on the battlefield situation. the secret service emphasizes that the deployment of these troops “is expected to take at least a week”.
“Russian bombing raids on cities to the east and south continue, and Russian forces have advanced further south of the strategically important city of Izium, which remains under their control,” the update concludes.
Russian troops remain focused on capturing the port city of Mariupol, reports the Ukrainian General Staff in the update provided this morning. The report also reports that the Russians are also concentrating an offensive around the city of Izium in the Kharkiv region in the east of the country. According to the latest analysis by military experts from the US Institute for War Research (ISW), Russian forces are “likely” to complete the capture of the city in the next few days.
Russian state television reported that the city center is now under the control of Moscow forces and 3,000 Ukrainian fighters remain in the outskirts.
A threeandahalfday curfew was imposed in Irpin, Kyiv region, from 9 p.m. last night to 9 a.m. April 11. The decision was made by the head of the Kyiv regional state administration Oleksandr Pavliuk. The entrance to the city will be completely closed and the entrance informs the mayor of the city Oleksandr Markushin will be allowed “only public services and volunteers who will work on the streets of the city”.
In the meantime, 10 humanitarian corridors in Ukraine have been agreed for today. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk. Corridors will be opened in Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Luhansk regions.