KYIV (REUTERS) – Ukraine's military chef Oleksandr Syrskyi said in an interview that was published on Wednesday that Russia had launched a new offensive in the northeast of the country, and added that a major increase in attacks was already being observed.
President VolodyMyr Zenskiy had previously warned that Russia was preparing an offensive in the two regions of Kharkiv and Sumy.
“I can say that the president is absolutely right and that this offensive has already started,” said Syrskyi in an interview with the Ukrainian publication LB.
“Since a few days, almost a week, we have been observing almost a doubling of the number of enemy attacks in all main directions (on the front line),” he said.
Moscow is almost to push the Ukrainian troops completely out of their position in Kursk region, which they had since last August and which lies across the border from the Sumy region.
Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukrainian troops were also present in the adjacent Russian region of Belgorod.
The war, of which the first year was characterized by fast Russian territorial profit followed by Ukrainian counterattacks, has since become much more a battlefield of the battlefield, with Moscow that squeezes relatively small profits by attacking wave after Golf of Infantry Squadrons.
(Reporting by Max Hunder; editing by Aidan Lewis)
