The Russian forces launched an offensive in the regions of Sumy and Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine several days ago, the Ukrainian commander in chief Oleksandr Syrsky said in an interview published Wednesday.
The comments of Syrsky occur almost a month after the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia was preparation A new attack on the Sumy region, which borders the Kursk Russia region.
“I can say that the president is absolutely right and that this (Russian) offensive (in the regions of Sumy and Kharkiv) has already started,” Syrsky told Ukrainian news website Left Bank.
“For several days now, almost a week, we have seen almost a doubling of the number of enemy offensive actions in all major areas,” he added.
Syrsky said Russia was trying to create a buffer area in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, as well as in the Chernihiv region of northern Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin proposed to establish a so-called “buffer zone” in the Sumy region to protect the Kursk region from future attacks during his visit last month. The proposal was followed by reports from a potential Russian offensive, with minor Russian incursions in the Sumy region.
Ukraine has launched a surprise incursion in the Kursk region in August, but a Russian counter-offensive in recent months has gradually taken from its capture on the territory.
The last offensive has not been the first time that Russia has turned to the Sumy region of Ukraine. Russian troops pushed in the region during the first weeks of the large -scale invasion in February 2022.
However, despite the initial successes, the Russian forces failed To establish the control due to the Ukrainian resistance, and the Kremlin was forced to withdraw At the beginning of April 2022 as part of his wider retirement in the north of Ukraine.
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