Russia deploys 50,000 troops around Sumy, threatening new push into Ukraine

Russia deploys 50,000 troops around Sumy, threatening new push into Ukraine


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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