"surprise" they have been gathering close to 100k troops in the north, and this has been thoroughly discussed by Ukraine.
I hope the ukranians are able to make it difficult for the Russian MOD.
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"surprise" they have been gathering close to 100k troops in the north, and this has been thoroughly discussed by Ukraine.
I hope the ukranians are able to make it difficult for the Russian MOD.
Situation on the ground unfortunately doesn't sound great. Here's a BBC article about the lack of prepared fortifications.
He says officials had claimed that defences were being built at huge cost, but in his view, those defences simply weren’t there. “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal”.
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Well there it is up to Ukranians to deal with that. I would imagine that for military command the inspection of these things is important.. existential even.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russian forces have made two cross-border assaults inside northern Ukraine, according to information from Ukrainian sources and officials, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling a “new wave of counteroffensive actions” by Russia.
In the first development, Russian soldiers penetrated at least one kilometer towards the town of Vovchansk, a Ukrainian military source told CNN.
The aim, the source said, “was to get 10 km deep and create a buffer zone at the border to secure Russian territory from feeling the war.”
A second Ukrainian source with direct knowledge of frontline developments told CNN that Russian forces had also penetrated 5 kilometers inside Ukraine towards the village of Krasne, which lies about 75 km along the border, west of Vovchansk.
DeepStateMap also noted on its Telegram channel that the number of Russian forces deployed in the two cross-border pushes was not enough for a deeper advance into Ukrainian territory, but it also drew attention to the fact Moscow has many more troops positioned along the border - estimated to be around 40,000.
In an address Saturday evening local time, Zelensky said Ukraine was “strengthening our positions” and adding forces to the Kharkiv region.
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