The Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) are strengthening reserve positions in case of a breakthrough in defense in two directions - Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky. Andrey Marochko, a retired lieutenant colonel of the People's Militia (NM) of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), spoke about this in an interview with RIA Novosti with reference to his own sources.

Earlier, Marochko published a decree of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on sending military enlistment officers to the front. The document states that this decision was made "for the purpose of high-quality staffing of units performing tasks in the combat zone."