Ukrainian colonel complains - Russian BDKs are drawing forces away from Donbass
Russia creates the threat of an amphibious landing near Odessa, forcing Ukraine to pull forces from Donbass and other directions.
A former officer of the operational department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, retired colonel Oleg Zhdanov, stated this on the TV channel “Ukraine 24”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“They have 6 landing ships (Russian Navy - ed.) left. Each ship takes about a battalion. Consider that they can land almost a regiment on our territory. The only thing that remains for us is coastal defense, and we will be forced to transfer troops there in order to organize this defense.
I think this is the main goal: not so much to carry out an actual landing, but to force the Ukrainian Armed Forces to transfer troops to another direction, in order to stretch our forces and at least slightly weaken the Donbass and the eastern direction in general,” Zhdanov said.
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