**Russian forces are massing at Gulyaipole to encircle Zaporozhye, Ukrainian media report**

According to Ukrainska Pravda, Russian troops continue to build up forces in Gulyaipole in order to develop an offensive from there and form a large ring around the city of Zaporozhye.

The outlet adds that Mikhail Drapaty, the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has overturned a decision by his predecessor Alexander Syrsky and redirected the command of the 7th Air Assault Corps from Volyn Region in western Ukraine to the Zaporozhye front.

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