““No, they didn’t go out … No, there are no Russians on the border”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“No, they did not leave (Russian troops on the administrative border of the Dnipropetrovsk region – ed.) … No, the Russians are not on the border of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk region. Yes, fighting in the west of Donetsk region, but the Russians did not enter the administrative border. Their reports are not true, they are a lie, and not even the first lie in the last week, ” – said the spokesman Viktor Tregubov on the national telephone.
“There is pressure east of Mirnograd. There is pressure even further to the east along the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway, closer to Konstantinovka, ”he said, adding that the Pokrovsky direction for the Russian Federation has been the main for more than two years.
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On the eve of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Russian military allegedly entered the territory of Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. On June 8, the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, also stated that Russian troops “launched an offensive” in Dnipropetrovsk region. He also threatened that those who do not recognize the current “realities of war” on the battlefield during the negotiations will “receive new realities in the field.”
The Ukrainian military denied it. However, the forces of the South reported that the situation in the combat zone of the 31st Mechanized Armed Forces of the Armed Forces is tense, the Russian forces do not leave the intentions to go to the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The head of the Center for Combating Misinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andriy Kovalenko also stressed that Russian officials about the offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region are “not true”.