The Russian grouping has now reached the border of the Kharkov region along the line of Melovoye-Markovka-Starobelsk and joined the northern grouping’s units advancing from Belgorod
Half of the entire Ukrainian military grouping was encircled, approximately 50,000 men. This area is now waiting to be cleared of the National Battalions and forced to surrender to the AFU forces.
Many militants are not going to surrender and will try to break out of the encirclement: it is in this direction that the heaviest battles are now taking place, with artillery duels on a large scale.
The elimination of the Donbas grouping will deprive Kiev of its most massive and combat-ready units and allow it to reach the borders of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya regions, completing the encirclement of Kharkiv.
Earlier, it was reported that DNR servicemen continue to liberate populated areas from Ukrainian nationalists.