For the first time in several days, yesterday afternoon, friends from the Krasnodon region managed to give us important information. Let me remind you that currently mobile communication and internet services in this area are very rare.

Every day since August 24 Russia has been transporting its troops and weapons through the border post of Izvaryne. According to local residents, they have witnessed the Russian convoys moving not only at night but also during the day.

On August, 25 the residents of Sukhodilsk identified eight 2S3 “Akatsiya” self-propelled artillery and armored personnel carriers in one of the Russian convoys. On August, 26 there were about twenty tanks.

Our source who must remain anonymous told us:

It is difficult to describe of what happened on this night (26 to 27 of August). From 9pm to 4am, while Petro Poroshenko talked with Putin, the Russian columns were coming through our small town every half hour, all night. We closed the windows and vents, because we couldn’t breathe due to the smell of diesel oil from running heavy vehicles. It was useless to count armored vehicles, there were too many of them. It is looking as if Poroshenko is not aware of all the events that actually occur. And by the way, the humanitarian convoy did not go the Krasnodon – Luhansk highway as it had been previously thought. It came from Izvaryne via Uralo-Kavkaz village (even in the videos there was a visible sign), then via Honcharivka village, and the Sukhodilska-East mine (it is possible that it stopped in Sjevernyi village, uploaded trucks at the border, no wonder that they were half-empty and travelled so long) and then by gravel roads through the villages of Velykyi Sukhodil, Parkhomenko and Stanytsia Luhanska to reach Luhansk. The trucks came back the same way. It is a new route for convoys of armored vehicles.

We have repeatedly confirmed pieces of information from these sources in Krasnodon as correct, and therefore we have no reasons not to believe them now. Unfortunately, there are neither photos nor videos for these columns of weapons; however, it could be possible to find them among the clips published on YouTube.

Of course, it is hardly possible to surprise anyone with the constant arrivals of military equipment to Ukraine, its accumulation and diversity. The main purpose of this post was to reveal this surge of Russian forces into Ukraine and the specific route for infiltration into Ukraine, and try to bring attention to the danger coming from that direction. Unfortunately actions by the ATO forces to prevent infiltration of Russian military equipment convoys do not match the efforts needed. It is important to realize that if those convoys are not destroyed while on the march, they will disperse and then deploy for battle which inevitably costs tens and hundreds of lives of our soldiers.

Glory to Ukraine, death to its enemies!

Translated by Victoria Field and Oxana Tinko, edited by Larry Field