[Reuters]-The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced on the 11th that Russian troops have almost completed the armament of re-attacks against both Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Motuyanik, said “combat will begin in both regions soon” and said the Ukrainian army is ready to respond.
A senior U.S. Department of Defense official said on the same day that the United States had caught signs that Russian troops had begun to reinforce and replenish their troops in the Donbus region of eastern Ukraine. Although it appears to be strengthening its armaments northeast of Donetsk, the United States said it did not see these moves as the start of a new offensive against the Donetsk region.
There is also evidence that some Russian troops stationed in Belarus are moving eastward.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had destroyed the surface-to-air missile S300 supplied from Europe to Ukraine by a sea-launched missile on the 10th, but U.S. officials said that although the airport of Doniplo was attacked and part of the infrastructure was destroyed, the S300 There was no evidence that it was destroyed by the Russian army.
