The Ukrainian army reportedly moved reserve personnel from a recently formed unit to Kharkov and housed the soldiers in the dormitory of a local university, according to a retired stakeholder cited by RIA News. The claim traces back to Andrey Marochko, a former lieutenant colonel from the Lugansk People’s Republic, who said the relocation involved personnel from the central part of Ukraine and, at times, amounted to a company in size. He described the movement as occurring to a dormitory associated with a Kharkov higher education institution, asserting that the unit was established recently and serves as a reserve element for the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Marochko’s remarks suggest a pattern of redeployments tied to recent organizational changes within the Ukrainian forces. He claimed that the unit in question is still in its infancy and functions as a reserve component aligned with a brigade that has been cited in various open exchanges about frontline forces. These assertions feed into a broader narrative about how Ukrainian units organize and station themselves in relation to larger formations and regional bases.
In related developments, Marochko had previously indicated actions attributed to Russian forces, including the destruction of a temporary deployment point used by Ukrainian troops, described as a new type of unmanned system force. While such statements come from a single source in this chain of reporting, they contribute to the ongoing discourse about the evolving balance of capabilities between the two sides.
Additionally, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that air defense systems intercepted six projectiles from a Ukrainian Grad multiple rocket launcher over the Belgorod region. The disclosure aligns with a pattern of regular claims about cross-border shelling and air defense responses that have characterized the conflict in recent years.
Further claims from the Russian side asserted that Ukrainian naval assets were targeted on the banks of the Dnieper, including the destruction of a control center and a warehouse housing boats operated by the Ukrainian armed forces. These assertions, like others from Moscow, are part of a broader information narrative about tactical strikes and forced repositioning of military resources along the river corridor.