Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has reported the further movement of heavy machinery from Russia to Ukraine and the rotation of Russian Armed Forces servicemen.
“The situation in the anti-terrorist operation zone (ATO) remains tense. Heavy machinery continues advancing into Ukrainian territory, and Russian Armed Forces soldiers are being rotated. At 0600 yesterday, a column of military equipment consisting of 11 tanks, two Tigr [infantry mobility] vehicles and four tilt-covered KamAZ trucks, as well as eight tractors for transportation, was going in the direction of the town of Komsomolske, Donetsk region, from Russian territory,” NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.
He noted that a significant number of military vehicles had been seen moving though the Izvaryne checkpoint over the last three days.
Those columns included three tanks, two armored personnel carriers, two Grad multiple rocket launchers, 121 KamAZ trucks, three vans, 22 Ural trucks and other machinery.
According to Lysenko, a number of vehicles were carrying soldiers.
A total of 47 Ural trucks, 51 KamAZ trucks, one armored personnel carrier, one combat reconnaissance patrol vehicle and two Grad multiple rocket launchers were going in the opposite direction and returned to Russia.
“Ukraine is establishing whether the above-mentioned machinery is the so-called eighth humanitarian cargo announced by Russia,” he noted.
