MOSCOW, March 10. /TASS/. Russian troops have come close to the border with Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk region, military expert Yan Gagin said on Monday.

"It has coincided so that the enemy has decided to support precisely the south Donetsk direction because we have pushed far ahead there and at a very fast pace and we have actually approached the administrative border of the Dnepropetrovsk region," the military expert said during a live broadcast on the Rossiya-1 television channel.

The enemy’s maneuver has enabled Russian troops to advance successfully in the Kursk frontline area, he added.