The Russian forces They continue to gain ground in the Border Region of Sumiof the northeast of Ukraine, where according to the Ukrainian platform of War analysis the Kremlin troops control more than 150 square kilometers.
According to the map of the Deepstate hostilities, The Russian Army is less than 25 kilometers from the homonymous capital of the regiona city that before the war had 250,000 inhabitants and in which four people died on a new Russian attack against the center of the municipality.
Deepstate warns that, at that distance, Russian forces can start using drones directed with optical fiber -And therefore immune to the electronic interference of the Ukrainian army- against the city of Sumi itself, which would make the city even more vulnerable to the Russian attacks that are already constant.
As explained by the spokesman for the Ukrainian border guard, Andrí Demchenko, the Russians do not use armored vehicles in their offensive on Sumi, but Very small infantry groups that sometimes penetrate behind Ukrainian lines with the use of motorcycles or quads to try to settle there and extend the front even more until reinforcements reach them. Demchenko also said that the Russians use this tactic in a relatively small segment of the Sumi border area with Russia.
The Russian government stressed in early May that seeks to create a “security zone” in the province of Sumi After completing the recovery of the territory of the Kursk region, located on the other side of the border and objective of an incursion launched in August 2024 by the Ukraine troops.
His Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, later warned that Moscow concentrates about 50,000 soldiers on the Russian side of the border to launch an offensive that allows them to create A ten -kilometer sanitary cordon deep within Ukraine.
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