London, April 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) In its latest update on Friday, the UK's Ministry of Defence announced that Russian forces have fully withdrawn from northern Ukraine to Belarus and Russia.
The Ministry added that "at least some of these forces will transferred to east Ukraine to fight in Donbas" which comprises the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
It also said that many of these of these forces will need "significant replenishment before being ready to deploy further east".
"Any mass redeployment from the north likely to take at least a week minimum," the Ministry said in the update posted on Twitter.
It added that Russian shelling of cities in Ukraine's "east and south continues and Russian forces have advanced further south from the strategically important city of Izyum" which remains under Moscow's control.
Russia's main effort now is eastern Ukraine, after withdrawing its forces from the area around Kiev in the north, the BBC said in a report.
Source: IANS
Gopi Adusumilli is a Programmer. He is the editor of SocialNews.XYZ and President of AGK Fire Inc.
He enjoys designing websites, developing mobile applications and publishing news articles on current events from various authenticated news sources.
When it comes to writing he likes to write about current world politics and Indian Movies. His future plans include developing SocialNews.XYZ into a News website that has no bias or judgment towards any.
He can be reached at gopi@socialnews.xyz
This website uses cookies.
