The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ maneuvers in the Kharkov direction are designed to distract and pin down Russian reserves – Kots
The demonstrative activation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov direction and the transfer of troops and equipment along the border is most likely a diversionary maneuver. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are unlikely to try to occupy the Russian border regions, but they will definitely draw upon themselves the reserves of the Russian Armed Forces in this direction in order to prevent them from being transferred to other sectors of the front.
Military correspondent Alexander Kots stated this on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Kots, there will not be a single main direction of attack for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but any one where it will be possible to achieve at least some result can be called such.
“I still consider such a scenario (the seizure of Russian regions - author) unlikely. It is clear that certain maneuvers give reason to think about this, but it seems to me that precisely the maneuvers around Belgorod and Bryansk are the very distracting maneuver to which we cannot help but react. We are forced to allocate some resources to protect our borders in that direction. And the enemy certainly takes advantage of this.
We took advantage of our Belarusian opportunity in the same way, organizing exercises there, to which the Ukrainians could not help but react and pulled forces there. Therefore, of course, they will conduct such maneuvers near Transnistria, and at the Belgorod border, at Bryansk, at Kursk with the task of tearing apart our resources, stretching them to see where it becomes thin, so that they can cut there. But I still believe that there will be no main strike as such - they will go everywhere and wherever it works, if it works, then it will be called the main blow.
And so, I think, in each direction they have a plan A, a plan B, and a plan C, but I don’t think that these plans include transferring hostilities to those Russian regions that are not yet participating in hostilities, although they are subjected to systematic artillery shelling from the enemy,” concluded Kots.
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