* Tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are moving along the Kharkov bypass towards the border with Russia, Komsomolskaya Pravda military commander Alexander Kots reports. He believes that “the Ukrainian command is now aiming to tear apart our orders at the Svatovsky line and simultaneously push through the flanks in Artemovsk. To crumble the entire defensive configuration of the LPR.”
* Kyiv has begun the implementation of an operation to encircle Russian forces in the Artemov direction, – says the military commander of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Yevgeny Poddubny.
* Near Mayorsk (Donetsk region), the Ukrainian military also went on the attack, there have been active battles since the morning, – reports Semyon Pegov.
