The designated hot contact line now exceeds 1,200 kilometres, covering Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv oblasts, where active hostilities are underway. Source: Brigadier-General Oleksii Hromov, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces, in an interview with Ukrinform news agency Quote: "The length of the designated hot contact line now exceeds 1,200 kilometres.