Western analysts are convinced that Russia will intensify offensive actions in the East of our state. Putin is consolidating the efforts of his military and collecting equipment in order to capture the Donetsk and Lugansk regions within their administrative borders.
Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate, noted that it was not at all correct to talk about a “repeated offensive”, because the enemy was trying to attack on February 24th. At the same time, he did not object to information about the aggravation of hostilities in the East of our state. The same position was expressed in the authoritative American publication Foreign Policy.
Hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in the Eastern direction
As stated by experts, the Kremlin has focused on this sector of the front most of the personnel of their troops – we are talking about hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The “second army of the world” will once again try to break through the defenses of the Armed Forces, but the question remains whether it will succeed.
Amid the recent surge in hostilities, many military analysts believe that the long-awaited Russian offensive is already underway and is expected to accelerate as the first anniversary of the invasion approaches, the journalists wrote.
In addition, they recalled the words of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs affairs of Estonia. Jonathan Vseviov stated that “something is brewing in the East”, because more and more invaders are arriving at the line of confrontation.
It is also known from open sources that Russia sent the following military equipment to the East of our state:
- 1,800 tanks;
- 3,950 armored vehicles;
- 2,700 artillery systems;
- 810 Grad and Smerch multiple rocket launchers;
- 400 fighters;
- 300 helicopters.
< /ul>Pay attention!According to Ukrainian officials, Russia has concentrated about 300,000 soldiers in the East. Western military analysts believe that this figure is somewhat lower, but they do not deny that Putin's soldiers in Lugansk and Donbass are many times more than in the first months after February 24.
When aggravation is to be expected
Referring to an anonymous Ukrainian soldier, Foreign Policy suggested that the enemy could become more active in the next 10 days. However, one should also recall the words of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, who said that the occupiers will begin to actively attack on the anniversary of the start of a full-scale invasion – that is, on February 24, 2023.
However, there is no need to worry too much about this, because The Kremlin has exhausted all its offensive potential in just one year of this large-scale war.
Russian recruits are significantly worse equipped and trained than those who were at the beginning of the Russian invasion. The Kremlin often uses newly mobilized soldiers as “cannon fodder”. Such tactics were popular in the USSR, the media also noted.
In conclusion, they stated that there are no signs that Putin will abandon his common goal – to capture all of Ukraine. Of course, the Ukrainian army, which will be well armed with Western tanks, artillery systems and fighter jets, can become an obstacle for him.
Ukraine needs weapons to contain Russia
So far, everything indicates that the arrival of trains of vehicles from the West may be too late. Although it is obvious that the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not going to retreat and will hold the line to the last. By the way, not so long ago, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that our military would not leave Bakhmut. However, the issue of weapons is critical.
That is why he left the state for the second time since the beginning of the invasion and arrived on official visits to London and Paris. According to the adviser to the head of the Office of the President Mykhailo Podolyak, it is clear that the key goal of the trip of the head of our state abroad is to speed up the process by providing us with weapons.
