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Russian militants on tanks in Yelenivka, Donetsk region (photo: Reuters/Alexande...

Can the Russian Federation organize a large offensive in Ukraine - the response of the Israeli officer

Russian militants on tanks in Yelenivka, Donetsk region (photo: Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko) Igal Levin, an officer of the Israeli Defense Army and a military analyst, told Radio NV whether Russia can organize a large offensive in Ukraine. “Russia says that we will hit the Donbass now, to squeeze the Donetsk region, hit Kharkiv, capture Kharkiv, hit Kyiv again and hit Nikolaev again to go to Odessa. Suppose they stated. All this declare and broadcast, repeat.

And Britain's intelligence broadcasts it, and the Institute for War Study is repeated, broadcasting. And everyone thinks: horror, Russia wants to step everywhere. The General Staff realizes that Russia has no strength to step everywhere, especially, by the way, they threw forces from Donbass south, that is, they weaken their areas there, ”he explained. Levin noted that Ukraine has success in the Izium direction, where the Armed Forces rejected the occupiers a little and advanced.

“What does it say? First, the Izium group is not in the best condition, but secondly, that they took away the forces from there, ”the military expert said. He added that the military genius is to understand where the secondary areas are and where the main is. According to Levin, Russian troops "can actually start an offensive in the Kharkiv direction", but this is not the main effort, but "a swallowing, that distracts that we think that they are coming on Kharkiv.

" "And it can be turned so that it will seem that the Armada is going to Kharkiv now," the Israeli officer said. According to him, provocations on the border of Belarus with special forces and shooting are possible, "to think that all, now the army of Belarus is connected, and there the General Staff urgently overturned some parts, weakening other areas", "and in fact the blow will be completely different. ”.

Levin also expressed the opinion that occupation troops are just trying to keep the south. “They cannot take Kharkiv, even if they begin the offensive, even if they can theoretically discard our troops, capture the village or two. But they do not surround or capture Kharkiv, it is a fact, they simply have no strength, at least that they start there. To capture completely Donetsk region, to go to the borders, the forces that now have after smearing - they also do not have this opportunity.

To move to Nikolaev, to surround Nikolaev, to force the river there, to go to Odessa - they have no strength. That is, they have no strength on it. What does it say? They are swept away to the south in order to keep the south so that Kherson is not blocked and, by the way, Melitopol, they are often forgotten, we should also not forget, an important nodal city, ”the military expert said.