Context
The Russian Federation unleashed a war against Ukraine in 2014, when the Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions on February 24, 2022, Russia, began a full -scale invasion of Ukraine from the northern, eastern and southern directions. In the spring of the same year, the Ukrainian army was discovered by the north of the country, in the fall – Kherson.
In June 2024, the Russian army began the invasion in the north of the Kharkov region, the battles for Volchansk continued. From August 6, 2024 Armed Forces An operation is performed in the aggressor country-in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. Since April 2025, the Ukrainian military has been conducting operations in Belgorod region of the Russian Federation.
April 21, 2025, the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, announced intensive battles in the borderlands of the Sumy region and the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
On May 14, the head of the Center for Combating Discovery at the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine Andrei Kovalenko said that Russia Preparing a new offensive in the summer. The next day in The operational-strategic group of the Khortitsa troops reported that the summer offensive of Russians had already “actually began.”
On May 26, the Sumy ova said that The Russian Federation occupied four settlements of the region: New, bass, cheerful and crane. On the same day, the State Border Service of Ukraine reported that Russian invaders are trying to expand the zone of their actions in the Sumy region, moving in small assault groups.
On June 12, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian invaders are being supplanted from the Sumy region, where they went.
