Image of a 13km long Russian military convoy moving in eastern Ukraine

According to calculations by CNN (USA), this convoy is about 13km long, shorter than the 64km long military convoy that entered Kiev last month.

British defense intelligence previously said Russia was concentrating its forces and preparing to launch a stronger attack on Kharkov located near the border.

According to the assessment of US intelligence, Russia seems to be preparing for a major military operation from Izium to the city of Dnipro, which is seen as a barricade opening the way to other cities of the Donbass region.

Map of the military situation in Ukraine on April 10. The red areas are areas that Russia and Ukrainian separatists control. According to the Institute for the Study of War (USA), Russia is organizing two axes of reinforcements for forces in eastern Ukraine, with the first going through Kharkov (Kharkiv on the map) and Izium, the second from selling Crimea – Photo: ISW

The Russian Defense Ministry previously announced that it would focus on the eastern front, helping Ukrainian separatists expand their territory.

In a statement on the afternoon of April 10, a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry said that a high-precision surface-to-surface missile of the Russian Navy destroyed the command headquarters of a mercenary battalion in Dnipro.

The head of the military command of the Dnipropetrovsk region said air raid sirens “sound almost every hour” and that some infrastructure in the capital Dnipro was destroyed by Russian missiles.

Worried that the prospect of war in the east could be complicated, Ukrainian officials have called on people in the Donbass region to evacuate. According to the newspaper New York Timesmany volunteers responded to the call and organized evacuation trips for people in eastern Ukraine.

Some other images of the Russian military convoy passing through the town of Velkyi Burluk were taken by the Maxar satellite on April 8 and announced by the AFP news agency on April 10.