Russia is continuing to mass troops on its southern and eastern border with Ukraine, as well as deploys mines in the Sea of Azov under the cover of missile boats, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has reported.
“About a hundred armored vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces arrived
at the Russian Likhaya railway station in Rostov region, and the convoy
headed to the settlement of Novoshakhtinsk in Rostov region,” the head
of the NSDC information center, Andriy Lysenko, said at a briefing in
Kyiv on Monday, July 21.
Lysenko said that the buildup of Russian manpower and military
hardware had been recorded near the village of Strilkove in Kherson
region.
“In addition, Russian Armed Forces units started deploying mines in
the Ukrainian section of the Sea of Azov around captured gas production
facilities. The mine-laying work is covered by two Russian missile
boats,” he said.
