Russian military movements on Belarusian border have decreased: Ukraine

Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces said Thursday that there has been a "significant reduction in the intensity of the movement" of Russian military equipment on the Belarusian border.

On its social media account, the Ukrainian military shared the latest developments from the war on its 57th day.

Saying that Russia continued its operations in Ukraine's eastern regions in order to establish full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the General Staff said "missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine continue."

"Some units of the Belarusian Armed Forces continue to carry out tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions," it added.

Noting that Russia "tried to take full control of Mariupol," the Ukrainian army said Russian forces "continued to carry out air strikes and attempted assaults in the area of ​​the seaport and the Azovstal plant."