The Russian Federation continues to increase its military contingent in the East of Ukraine.

This was announced today at the traditional daily briefing, the representative of the anti-terrorist operation, Colonel Andrei Lysenko, passes the Censor.NET.

Lysenko also noted that in the key operational areas is being replaced by groups of militants in the servicemen of the armed forces, the total number of which is controlled by the militants territories reached its highest level since the beginning of the conflict in the Donbass - more than 9 thousand troops.
"The command of the armed forces provides a continuous supply in the area of combat actions of troops and military equipment, enhanced air defenses, communications systems, intelligence and electronic warfare. Through uncontrolled areas of the Ukrainian-Russian border in large quantities are imported ammo is about 30 to 40 trucks per day. To this end, and to ensure the regular rotation of the Russian military to the border with our state redeployed individual units of the armed forces, in particular the 20th guards army of the Western military district of the armed forces (headquarters locates in Nizhny Novgorod region", - said the speaker of the ATO.

Source: http://censor.net.ua/