Russians trying to expand combat zone toward Novenke, Zhuravka – border guards

This was reported on national television by the spokesman for the State Border Guard Service, Andr Demchenko, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"The Russians continue to shell Sumy region, but also the areas within Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions. However, most of the strikes is now recorded in Sumy region, and here the enemy does not reduce the intensity of its attacks. This includes the use of a large number of aircraft," Demchenko said.

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According to the official, in most cases, the enemy employs drones drping their explosive payload.

These are fiber-tic drones, FPV drones that “terrorize the civilian pulation,” the spokesman for the State Border Guard Service added.

He noted that on some sections of the border, attempts by small enemy assault groups to cross into Ukrainian territory are still being recorded.

“This is mainly toward Novenke and Zhuravka. In other areas, attempts by such small assault groups to penetrate the border are also detected from time to time, but this is all, in principle, within a single erational zone, where the enemy is trying, through such tactics, to amass forces on our territory in order to expand the zone of active hostilities already on the territory of Ukraine,” the spokesman said.

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According to Demchenko, Ukraine’s forces engage and destroy these small assault groups both on Ukraine’s soil after they breach the border, during the crossing, and on approaches to the border line.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, in the night and morning hours, the Russians launched 35 strikes targeting Sumy region.