'The liberation of the Lugansk People's Republic has been fully completed and the AFU units continue to be neutralised on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporozhye region and Kherson region. The creation of a security band in the border areas of Kharkov, Sumy, and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine is being carried out according to the plan.

The enemy units try to hold their positions, but under the pressure of our troops [the enemy] retreats with great losses, and is forced to retreat with great losses.

Since the beginning of this year, the Russian troops have liberated 133 settlements and have taken under control more than 3,000 square kilometres of our land in Donbass and Novorossia'.