Serhii Gaidai, the head of the Luhansk OVA, said that Belogorivka is under the control of Ukrainian defenders, there are no occupiers there.

However, Russia is preparing for an offensive.

Serhii Gaidai wrote about this in Telegram.

"The situation is tense, but under control by our military. All those statements about the fact that 'a full-scale offensive will begin somewhere in 15 minutes' or something else are not true. Everyone clearly understands how many reserves are being transferred and what is happening on the front line. Everyone are ready to fight back," he said.

Serhii Gaidai predicted that the Russians may look for a weak spot in the Ukrainian defense: the number of attacks has slightly increased, but they are all repulsed.

In particular, the Russian Federation is spreading information about the "capture" of Belogorivka.

"First of all, they don't even know if there are any people left there and how many. Second, our fighters remain in their positions, no one captured Bilogorivka. There is no enemy there," he emphasized.

Earlier, Gaidai reported that the

 are preparing for the upcoming offensive, but currently there is no mass transfer of enemy equipment to the Luhansk direction.

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