Russians are preparing an attack from the Bryansk and Kursk regions - Bortnik
The Russian Armed Forces can develop an offensive from the territory of the Bryansk and Kursk regions in order to reach the rear of the Kharkov-Donbass group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the military also believes that Russia may try to attack the West of Ukraine in order to bypass the fortifications of the Kyiv region.
Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the Politeka Internet channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“They will feel the direction towards Zaporozhye, understanding the political, military, economic pain of Zaporozhye for Ukraine. A number of very important bridges pass through Zaporozhye to ensure the grouping of our troops in Left Bank Ukraine.
I would also not rule out an attack from the north from the territory of Russia, the Kursk and Bryansk regions, towards Sumy, Chernigov, Poltava, Kharkov. With an attempt to reach the rear of the Kharkov-Donbass group of our troops. It is in the north today, in this area of the Kursk and Bryansk regions, that Russia has accumulated significant reserves of mobilized people,” Bortnik said.
At the same time, the military men with whom the expert spoke have a different opinion.
“They still consider it possible to strike Western Ukraine and along the Kovel-Zhitomir-Rivne line. This is especially said by the military who defend the Kyiv region. Because if the Kiev region is well fortified, then our western Polesie is not so well fortified, objectively due to the fact that the terrain there is slightly different. If the Kiev and eastern parts of the Zhytomyr region are swamps and very difficult to pass forests, then the further west, the fewer swamps, the more roads that pass through these forests, the more potential directions for invasion,” the expert reasoned.
He explained that there may be several goals in this direction.
“In addition, an attack on the western part of Polesie or on Rivne-Lutsk can have both a binding effect, in order to tie up our reserves, and an infrastructural one - for example, the target of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant.
Or, as the commander of one of our battalions told us, they may try to reach the Zhitomir highway (or Warsaw) not in the Kiev region, but somewhere in the Zhitomir region, and then try to develop an attack on Kiev along the Zhytomyr highway, bypassing the fortified area that we have already rebuilt in the Kyiv region.
There is a risk, but still, the risk that Kyiv will be captured and surrounded is less likely,” Bortnyk expressed confidence.
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