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| Zaluzhny arrives in Khar'kov region to prepare for its defense |
| 2024-01-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Col. Macgregor mentioned some time ago the Russian were planning for an offensive operation in Khar'kov. [Regnum] Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny and other representatives of the leadership of the Kiev army and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine gathered near Kharkov due to fears that the Russian Armed Forces would take control of this region, British expert Alexander Merkouris said on January 15. “Kharkov is a large industrial center. The Ukrainian authorities are in great tension, they are very afraid that Russia may be planning something there,” Merkouris said during a broadcast on his YouTube channel. At the beginning of January 2024, a large meeting of the military command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was held in the Kharkov region, which was attended by Zaluzhny, commander of the ground forces Alexander Syrsky and Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov, the expert recalled. Some of the meeting participants are on bad terms with each other, but were forced to hold the meeting because the situation in the region is negative for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not yet know what to do about it, Merkouris added. As Regnum reported earlier, on January 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of an ammunition depot and 16 pieces of enemy equipment and weapons in the Kupyansk direction in one day. On January 13, it was also reported that an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed in the Kharkov region, near Volchansk. Kiev-appointed regional authorities later reported the defeat of an “industrial enterprise” in the city. Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor, previously suggested that Russia will not complete a special military operation in Ukraine without taking control of Odessa and Kharkov. McGregor noted that Western intervention will not help the Kyiv regime, since none of the Western countries is ready to directly help the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the conflict with Russia. |
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