Putin has moblised half a million troops for major new offensive russia has mobilized five hundred thousand troops for a major new offensive in ukraine on the anniversary of vladimir putin's invasion kyiv's defense minister war before the kremlin said it planned to gain the world's attention on february the twenty fourth speaking on french television
lexii resnikov said the russian military is planning to call on the huge number of soldiers to mount another assault on his country february the twenty fourth will mark three hundred and sixty five days since moscow's troops first rolled into parts of ukraine not already under russian occupation but what
the kremlin hoped would be a swift overthrow of ukraine's government has dragged out into a painful war of attrition with kyev's forces driving the invaders back into the east now despite suffering a series of setbacks putin is preparing to launch another major offensive in an attempt to swing the
momentum in favor of armies and achieve victory in ukraine once and for all according to reznikov moscow appeared to hint at a new offensive on thursday with putin's chief diplomat saying that russia had planned to overshadow pro-ukrainian events a arranged by western and allied countries a around the world
to mark the anniversary lavrov said ominously russia diplomats were working on something to in ensure western led events in new york and elsewhere were not the only ones to gain the world's attention without providing details lavrov's comments came ahead of european commission chief ursula von de lein arriving in
kyiv for talks with ukraine's president vlodimir zelesky the pair was seen embracing as she arrived for the meeting during which he said the european union planned to introduce fresh sanctions on russia referring to russia's partial mobliization of three hundred thousand conscripted soldiers which moscow said was included in november
the ukrainian defense minister said the true size of the force could be closer to five hundred thousand and is gathering on the borders we do not underestimate our enemy resnikov said during an interview broadcast officially they announced three hundred thousand but when we see the troops at the borders
according to our assessments it is much more he said russia was likely to try an offensive on two fronts in the country's east which has been at the centre of brutal fighting in recent months and in the south resnikov said he' believes moscow has deployed about half a million
troops far more than russia's claim of three hundred thousand personnel currently mobilizeded in order to repel the attack he called on the west to supply it with more weaponly in the past week western powers including u s and germany have approved sending more than one hundred battle tanks to
ukraine a move that russia has war crosses a dangerous new line in the conflict it was also reported yesterday that the u s was preparing a more than two billion dollars package of military aid including the delivery of long-range missiles however the u s and the uk have for
now rebuffed kiivb's requests for fighter jets amid fears that it could lead to russia escalating the war even further we need arms to counter the enemy resnikov said.
0 Comments