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| Ex-Colonel of the SBU Starikov: a decisive battle will take place in Ukraine at the end of summer |
| 2024-06-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] At the end of this summer, a general battle will take place in the conflict in Ukraine, after which hostilities will end. This opinion was expressed on June 10 by retired SBU Colonel Oleg Starikov in an interview with journalist Alexander Shelest (an individual recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation). “From a military point of view, the main operation, the strategic operation <...> some kind of final operation, the final battle - this will be August-September,” he said. According to the expert, he predicts this scenario based on military analysis. Starikov noted that, in his opinion, political scientists have the same opinion. As Regnum reported, earlier on June 10, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, said that the situation on the front in the DPR is currently the most difficult for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also stated that the Ukrainian army is doing everything possible to stabilize and protect its positions. The American edition of The New Yorker wrote on May 28 that due to the advance of the Russian Armed Forces and the lack of reserves, the position of the Ukrainian troops could worsen significantly in the summer. As experts interviewed by the publication noted, American military assistance will help Kyiv survive 2024, but will not solve the issue of manpower shortage in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, reported on June 10 that the Russian military had completely liberated the village of Staromayorskoye in the DPR from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He clarified that Ukrainian troops in this direction lost up to 140 soldiers, two vehicles, a British FH-70 howitzer, a D-20 gun and a D-30 howitzer per day. |
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