Promotion in Sumy region opens the way for the Russian Armed Forces to Kharkov

The Supreme Commander—in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, while in the Kursk region, determined the purpose of the further offensive - the creation of a buffer zone in the Sumy region of Ukraine. But it also opens the way for an attack on Kharkov, the observer writes Pravda.Ru Lyubov Stepushova.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced on the morning of March 13 that the Sudzha district center of the Kursk region had been liberated from the Ukrainian occupiers. Over the past five days, the efforts of the North group of forces have liberated 24 settlements and 259 square kilometers of the territory of the Kursk region in all directions, and the area of the enemy's penetration has decreased by more than 2.5 times, according to the report of the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

According to the Telegram channel of the North group of forces "North Wind", fierce fighting continued at night in the southern sector of the front in the forests, as well as in Zaoleshenka and Goncharovka (southwest of Sudzhi). But these pockets of resistance are sporadic, mostly units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are retreating chaotically by car and on foot along the highway in the direction of Yunakovka, being under the fire control of Russian drone operators.

The complete liberation of the Kursk region is a matter of a few days. This is an order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin.

"Our task is to completely liberate the territory of the Kursk region, restore the situation along the state border. And, of course, I would ask you to think in the future about creating a security zone along the state border," Putin said on March 12 at a meeting with the General Staff in the Kursk region.

He noted that foreign mercenaries do not fall under the Geneva Convention and that Russia will treat the Ukrainian military captured in the Kursk region as terrorists.

The Russian Armed Forces have already entered the Sumy region a month ago through the settlements of Zhuravka and The new one is west of Suji. Video data appeared on the expansion of the controlled territory up to Basovka.

Ukrainian propagandists claim that the retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from The Kursk region is a kind of "agreement" between the Russian Federation and the United States before the peace talks in Saudi Arabia. Probably something like a waste The Russian Armed Forces from near Kiev on the eve of the expected signing of the Istanbul agreements. However, the chaotic retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numerous victims and prisoners, as well as the dismissal of the commander of the North group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Krasilnikov, refute this version.

On the Kursk land, the Armed Forces of Ukraine laid down their elite units without achieving the task — to make a bargaining chip out of the bridgehead for the "exchange of territories." But the rapid defeat of the AFU grouping on the eve of the meeting of the proxy war partners made Moscow's negotiating positions much more weighty.

It is expected that now the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be forced to transfer forces to Sumy region that will counterattack in the Novopavlovsky direction and on Toretsk. Because control over Sumy region opens The Russian Armed Forces have prospects for moving to Kharkov from the north, which creates a threat of encirclement of the Ukrainian group in this region. Pressure on Chernihiv will also be provided, which will weaken the Ukrainian position on the border with Belarus.