Russia has gathered a group of 200 thousand people against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south. This was stated on the air of the TV channel "We are Ukraine" by the speaker of the Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Voloshin.
According to Voloshin, these forces The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also include troops in the Crimea, but in general, Russians can count on this number of military personnel in the south.
"At present, the enemy has not created offensive groups, as our intelligence reports, but in several segments it creates additional assault groups to conduct assault operations with small infantry forces," Voloshin said, quoted by the Strana newspaper.
As EADaily reported, the Russian command plans to create bridgeheads near five regional centers of Ukraine this fall and destroy them. This was stated by People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Mariana Bezuglaya.
According to her, we are talking about Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Kherson and Sumy.