"Currently, Russian forces are attempting to storm the border in infantry groups without vehicle columns," Andrii Kovalenko said on Telegram. "There has been no breakthrough at the moment; the fighting continues.

Russian forces launched an assault on Sumy Oblast's border area on 25 February, entering Ukrainian territory. Defence forces have pushed them back, but the Russians are still attempting to storm the area with infantry and combat is ongoing.

The enemy is conducting attacks without equipment and convoys of vehicles. “At the moment, there is no breakthrough, the fighting continues,” he wrote, commenting on an earlier post by the DeepState monitoring group about the Ukrainian border breach by Russian troops in Sumy Oblast and their infiltration into the village of Novenke.

Russian forces attacked the Krasnopillia hromada in Sumy Oblast with guided aerial bombs on the evening of 27 February, damaging an apartment block and ten houses. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village,