The missiles are reported to be within 60km of Ukraine's eastern border, where Russia is focusing its latest major offensive.
Russia has deployed Iskander-M missile launchers some 40 miles away from its border with Ukraine, according to officials in Kyiv, as Moscow's major eastern offensive gathers pace.post that Russia had increased the number of troops in its Belgorod region, northeast of the war-torn city of Kharkiv.
Two Russian soldiers patrol in the Mariupol drama theatre, bombed last March 16, in Mariupol on April 12, 2022, as Russian troops intensify a campaign to take the strategic port city, part of an anticipated massive onslaught across eastern Ukraine, while Russia's President makes a defiant case for the war on Russia's neighbour. Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
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