By Natali Moss
The spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey Cherevy replied whether the Russian troops would be able to seize the entire territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions by March 1, as ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to him, occupiers are unlikely to be able to do so. He said this during a briefing at Military Media Center. In addition, the command representative expressed doubts that the Russians would be able to move significantly in the Donbass.
Cherevaty also noted that there have been several such orders from Putin since the invasion. The speaker said that Russian troops would try to go on the offensive and occupy new territories before the anniversary of the start of a full -scale war on February 24. "The enemy constantly wants to capture new Ukrainian territories . . . They like different dates, so they cannot be excluded that they will try to do it," he added.
However, Sergei Cherevaty recalled that in February 2022 Russia threw its best military units for Ukraine. Now they do not have such resources. "But what and how will they do it? Summing up a command representative. We will remind, on February 2 a representative of GUR Andriy Chernyak declared that Putin ordered the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to seize Donbas by March.
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