“A message to those who will listen, a warning”. Qualified sources in Kyiv told Adnkronos about yesterday’s raid on a Russian depot in Belgorod, which Moscow attributed to Ukrainians and which Ukrainians have neither confirmed nor denied. “We are able to meet you too,” seems to be the implicit message if it was ever Kyiv, who obviously have no interest in officially confirming it to avoid escalation. It could be justified as a form of “selfdefense,” a raid on more than 1,100 Russian missile strikes.
And then there’s another interpretation, the sources point out, they could have done to underscore the different stage the Ukrainian armed forces are in, to demonstrate they can “hold out” five weeks into the war . Almost a “provocation” for the Russians to increase their frustration. In any case, if they had been, it would have been a “demonstration action, because in Kyiv “they have to remember to defend themselves, not to attack.
In general, however, “the situation on the ground is still very fluid, the Russians are slowly advancing on the southern front”, while there are movements in Transnistria, where several thousand Russian soldiers are deployed. Movements, the sources stress, that would make sense in terms of stepping up attempts to take Odessa. “The least that Moscow wants the sources recall is the entire Donbass and the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. A little more would be to lead the entire Black Sea to Transnistria”.
Meanwhile, in Mariupol, fighting and resistance continue and no proRussian government has been installed, according to the intentions of the leader of the “Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin. “The city will eventually fall the sources believe but it hasn’t happened yet and this is yet another indication of just how miscalculated the Russians were in the special operation in Ukraine. Everything else is abbreviated by the sources in Kyiv, such as the interpretation that in reality everything that happens is calculated the withdrawal from the north of Ukraine to concentrate in the east “a conspiracy”.
As for the progress of the negotiations, the great “complexity is emphasized: if some steps forward were made on neutrality with the Ukrainian counterproposals, all difficulties remain on the issue of international guarantees and guarantors, with the system that Moscow would have ready itself declared, in addition to the “nodes” to accept Donbass and Crimea.