Authorities there are urging residents to evacuate children and those with limited mobility. And in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupyansk, located in the Kharkiv region, Russian shelling further escalated recently. On the ground developments: Efforts to 'eliminate' Russian forces around the southern Ukrainian village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region are continuing with offensive action from Kyiv's forces, according to Serhii Kuzmin, deputy commander of the Tavria Operational and Strategic Grouping for Strategic Communications.Counteroffensive updates: The Ukrainian counteroffensive hasn't been easy and is 'happening probably slower' than some had hoped, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video released by his office on Tuesday.Warsaw said two Belarusian helicopters allegedly violated the Polish airspace during training exercises on August 1, which the Belarusian defense ministry vehemently denied and dismissed as “far-fetched.” Poland recently accused Belarus of violating its airspace, raising tensions between the NATO member and a key Kremlin ally in an increasingly volatile security landscape in Europe. Moscow used Belarusian territory to facilitate its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, strengthening ties between President Vladimir Putin and Lukashenko. Some context: Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko brokered a deal to cap Wagner’s failed rebellion against Moscow, after which thousands of mercenary fighters were reportedly sent to Belarus. The center claimed “there remains a high probability” that Belarus and Russia will use the camp to intimidate the neighboring European countries in order to create an illusion that “the mercenaries are ready to invade the EU.” This, in turn, can make the European countries “reduce their support for Ukraine,” according to the center. Ukraine’s National Resistance Center said it obtained this information from “underground sources.”

The camp can house around 1,000 personnel, the center said, and it looks like a tent city. Zyabrovka is located near Gomel in southeastern Belarus, about 40 kilometers from the border with Ukraine's Chernihiv region. “In the future, it is planned to use them to simulate subversive activities on the border with the Chernihiv region.”ĬNN cannot independently verify this claim. “On the border with Ukraine, in the village of Zyabrovka in the Republic of Belarus, a new camp for 'Wagner' PMC mercenaries is being built,” the center said on its website.

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