BBC News, KYIV
According to the Ukrainian authorities, Russian troops are benefiting from northeastern Ukraine northeastern Ukraine.
Oleh hryharov’s head said the Russian military seized four villages and said, “To install the so -called ‘buffer zone’, there is a fight near other settlements in the area.
Russia has argued that Sumy has occupied six villages.
Last week, President Vladimir Putin announced plans to create a “security buffer area” along the border. “The enemy’s launch point is actively suppressed and the work is progressing,” he said.
Putin said that the buffer area will be created to provide “additional support” to Russia, which is in charge of Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv in Ukraine, to provide “additional support” to Russia, which is in charge of the border.
In a statement on Facebook on Monday, SUMY’s hryharov wrote:
He added that the villages of Novenke, Basivka, Veselivka and Zhuravka were all occupied.
KYIV officially not officially mentioned that the Russian army is in the SUMY area, and when it was in contact with the BBC, hryharov did not confirm the information shared on Monday and said that only the army could mention the front line.
The daily briefing of the general employee did not name a specific location and mentioned collisions and other military activities in “Kursk direction”.
The Ukrainian army, which coordinates military activities in the region, refused to request the BBC’s request for comment, indicating that information about Russian development is very sensitive to Ukrainian authorities.
But Monday night, President Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Russia’s “new offensive preparation.” This was mainly interpreted as mentioning events in the SUMY region.
Deep State Map, a group that monitors Ukraine’s latest front line development, marked four Ukrainian villages completely controlled by the Russian army before the announcement of HyrHorov.
Co -founder Roman PoHorily said that the Russian army has been pushing the area since March.
Ukrainian military observer, Kostyantyn Masshovets, pointed out that Russia’s progress has been very slow in the last two weeks, but confirmed it. Masshovets also said Moscow recently moved a new unit from Donbas to SUMY.
Colonel Vadym Mysnyk, a spokesman for the ground forces, involved in defending the SUMY region, said Russian troops use small groups for motorcycles and buggy during most attacks.
Col Mysnyk explained that the movement of a large armored vehicle can be quickly found by drones. In the battlefield, speed and mobility are important.
The SUMY, however, was attacked regularly by Russian raids and artillery fires, and the local administration said that after Saturday, the Russians had dropped more than 30 guide bombs in the Russian region.
One of the biggest attacks last month occurred when ballistic missiles struck SUMY, where 34 people died. A few weeks later, nine drones hit nurse buses.
Russia will spread panic between residential buildings, hospitals and private vehicles, Col MySnyk argued. Russia denies that civilians say that they are targeting military goals in the strike.
Local authorities say evacuation is made at 202 settlements near the front line, and it consists of one -third of all territorial communities in the area.
Serhiy Grabskiy, a retired colonel and military expert, agreed that Sumy’s development was part of the plan to create a buffer area in Moscow.
Grabskiy said Russia’s main strategic goal is to occupy the Donbas region in the east where the most intensive battle is taking place.
GRABSkiy said, given the number of armies he had, Russia said, “We can’t concentrate major forces to get deep north.”
By maintaining North Korea’s pressure, Russia called it “the area of land” so that Ukraine could spread resources and weaken its position in the main front line.
The US -based War Think Tank Institute also reported that President Putin could succeed in Sumy as a leverage and justification for new territory demands as part of the future peace negotiations.
But observers agree that there is no major dramatic threat in the SUMY area.
So far, in the near future, in the near future, the Russian army cannot capture major cities such as SUMY, which is 250,000 before the invasion.
Deep State’s pohorily said the Ukrainian army could stabilize the front line. “It’s been almost three months since (Russia) started operations in the SUMY area, but it is still in the border,” he said.
Col Mysnyk argued that Ukraine has built a defense line along the entire border since 2022 and is now well prepared to prevent Russian army when the Russian invasion begins.
But if the priority of the Kremlin changes and Moscow sends more forces to SUMY, these actions may not last long.
