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Russia is strengthening its border security and checkpoints in the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions that border Ukraine, Ukraine’s general staff has said in its morning update.
On Monday large fires broke out at two oil depots in the city of Bryansk, less than 100 miles from the border with Ukraine, in what was thought to be a potential act of sabotage by Kyiv.
Russia was still blockading Ukrainian forces in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the general staff said, and was also carrying out aerial surveillance in the region of Odesa, an important port on the Black Sea coast and the main base for Ukraine’s navy.
It said six enemy attacks had been repelled in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine, and that four tanks and five artillery systems were destroyed among other equipment.
Оновлені дані Міноборони на 06.00 26 квітня pic.twitter.com/2R8GQ0IKUU
— Верховна Рада України (@verkhovna_rada) April 26, 2022
