– If Western countries continue military assistance for Kiev, Russia will create a “buffer zone” in Ukraine, the size of which will be practically comparable to the territory of this country – said Medvedev. The politician published a post on this subject with a map of Ukraine on his profile on social networking site X. On the map he left only a small belt of territory near the Ukrainian-Polish border.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to create a “buffer security zone” along the Russian-Ukrainian border. – Our armed forces currently carry out this task. Groupings of Ukrainian troops are liquidated. Work is underway – Putin said on May 22 during an operational meeting with government members.
The Osint Deepstate project associated with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that at the end of February Russian troops crossed the border of Kurski and Sumski. He said that recently the Russian forces took 62 km of the territory of the latter, and that they also have a small abutment in the Kharkiv region. At the same time, the pace of attack of the Russian army has fallen: tall -ranking American officials and military experts informed “Washington Post” that Over the past year, Russia managed to get only 0.6 percent. territory of Ukrainewhich was associated with losses of 1,500 killed and wounded a day.
According to Economist sources, during the first talks of Russia and Ukraine in three years, which took place on May 16 in Istanbul, The Russian delegation threatened the complete occupation of the Kharkiv and Sumski Districts. Then it turned out that the Russian command was concentrated on the border with the Kharkiv District and can start a large -scale offensive for sums. Sky News sources estimated the number of this group at 50,000. soldiers. At the same time, DeepState analysts wrote that the accumulation of staff is complementary because it is necessary to compensate for high losses. “Situation on [charkowskim] The episode has not changed significantly, “summed up the analysts.
