A convoy The 12 km long Russian is moving towards the east of Ukraine, almost on the border with the Russian Federation Kharkiv. This was revealed by satellite images taken on April 8 near the town of Velykyi Burluk by US company Maxar Technologies.
The Russian convoy
In the photos you can see a number of vehicles in motion. There are about a hundred vehicles including armored vehicles and artillery. Velykyi Burluk is east of Kharkiv, and the convoy moved about 80 kilometers from Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv. According to reports from the Ukrainian news channel Niveksti, the Kremlin troops are to march south through the village of Bolshoi Burluk. This could be the final confirmation of Russia’s new plans, according to which Moscow intends to focus on Donbass.
The reorganization of the Russians is confirmed by other movements affecting the region. The head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, said that during the night Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian column they were heading towards Izyum. The source added that Ukrainian troops, who finished cleaning up the territory in Olkhovka, found a grave with the bodies of Russian soldiers. “This is an example of how these nonhuman beings treat their own men, too,” Sinegubov added.
Moscow’s pressing
The Russian pushes on Donbassso, it has only just begun. And between now and the next few days it should get more and more intense. However, as British military intelligence has found, Russian attempts to set up a land corridor between Crimea and Donbass continue to be hampered Ukrainian resistance.
Russian operations are now concentrated in this area, aided by cruise missile launches by Russian naval forces. Recently there have also been attacks on the Odessa region, Kyiv argues, originating from the Crimean peninsula. The Kremlin offensives focused on Donbass, Mariupol and Mykolaiv are accompanied by continuous launches cruise missile by the Russian naval forces.
At the same time, and to make the mission even more fluid, Moscow would recruit new men, particularly by recalling soldiers who were discharged in 2012. This is reported by the British secret service in its latest report. Russia, London continues, is also trying to recruit military personnel in the region Transnistriawith a Russianspeaking majority that declared independence from Moldova in 1990.
For its part, British intelligence predicts “Russian air activity will increase in the south and east of the country to support this activity. Meanwhile, the attacks continue south of Izyum Sloviansk and Barwinkowe but where the Russians have not conquered any new territory. Conversely, the Ukrainian counterattack likely captured further territory west of Khersonwhere Russian control of the city would now be threatened (but the conditional is a must).
That time factor. Indeed, analysts are divided between those who argue that the Russian offensive in Donbass can start immediately within days and those who, on the contrary, believe that the Kremlin army has yet to reorganize. Serhiy Haidai, governor of Luhansk province in Donbass, predicts the attack will be “a matter of days”. “They are repositioning themselves at the borders and are continuing to bombard them. They have no morals: they will raze hospitals, schools and houses to the ground. You know Bucha or Mariupol? It’s going to be much worse for us,” he explained in an interview with Korsera.