Russia has amassed about 50,000 troops along Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast, three times the size of Kyiv’s forces in the key region — with Moscow preparing its latest push along the frontlines that have grown to more than 750 miles long.
After putting an end to Ukraine’s surprise counter-invasion of the Kursk region in April, Russia is now eyeing to flood the border with its troops and conquer Sumy, which had served as a main hub for Kyiv’s defenses and the assault that had left Moscow humiliated.
“Their main strategy [is to] wear us down with their numbers,” Ukraine’s top military commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy told the Wall Street Journal.
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Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, left, is trying to fortify
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