Russian forces have taken over Ukraine's second-biggest power plant in eastern Donetsk region and are undertaking a 'massive redeployment' of troops to three southern regions, a Ukrainian presidential adviser said.
A rescuer walks among debris at a site of a residential area destroyed by a Russian military strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Toretsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine July 27, 2022.
"They achieved a tiny tactical advantage - they captured Vuhlehirsk," Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in an interview posted on YouTube.Arestovych said that the Russian redeployment appeared to be changing tactics to strategic defence from offence in what Moscow calls its "special operation" to demilitarise and "denazify" its neighbour. Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb.
"We are doing everything to ensure that the occupying forces do not have any logistical opportunities in our country." Russia has received no formal request from Washington about a phone call between Blinken and Lavrov, TASS news agency reported.
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