Russian troops are reportedly gathering near Ukraine’s northeastern border in a sign of a possible new offensive aiming to expand Moscow’s foothold in the region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russia was preparing for new offensive actions and had gathered “another group of troops near our border”, about 90 kilometres north-west of Kharkiv city.
The Washington DC-based think-tank The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said satellite imagery of the Grayvoron-Borisovka-Proletarskiy area in western Belgorod suggested Russian forces had expanded activities at depots and warehouses in recent weeks, according to MSN.
An explosive device planted near an apartment building in Moscow has killed Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s nuclear and chemical forces, officials said.
Russian authorities say that two of their oil tankers have sustained heavy damage in the Black Sea during stormy weather, causing an oil spill.
Russia appears set to use its hypersonic “Oreshnik” IRBM again in the coming days, in what President Putin described as a response to Ukraine’s use of U.S. ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles on its territory.
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