Putin ordered Russian troops to capture the remaining part of Donbass by mid-September. This is claimed by a Ukrainian general, according to whom the goal of the Russians is to occupy the region within its administrative borders. According to the press, the deputy chief of the main operational department of the Ukrainian General Staff, Oleksiy Hromov, spoke about Putin’s order. “The enemy continues to control the occupied parts of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson Mykolaiv Oblast and is also trying to create favorable conditions for the resumption of the offensive. The Russian occupying forces are once again correcting their plans and actions in accordance with Putin’s order to reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk Oblast by September 15,” said General Hromov, according to Ukrainska Pravda daily. According to him, the newly formed 3rd Army Corps of the Russian Army should serve to renew the Russian offensive in this area. According to the Ukrainian general, the Russian command decided to disband the 31st Independent Airborne Brigade and the 22nd Special Forces Brigade, in which “less than 20 remained alive percent of the strength”. On Thursday evening, the Ukrainian General Staff reported the repulsion of further enemy attacks near Sloviansk, Bakhmut, Avdijivka and Novopavplyvka, where Ukrainian troops inflicted losses on the enemy forces and forced them to retreat. The claims of neither side of the conflict cannot be verified in wartime conditions from independent sources. (ČTK)