Reserve Captain of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Andriy Ryzhenko expressed concern about the significant accumulation of troops of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine. According to him, the number of Russian fighters has increased to half a million, which increases the risks for a number of regional centers.
The situation along the entire front line remains quite difficult and the Russians have targets for a number of regional centers of Ukraine. This was stated by the reserve captain of the 1st rank of the Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Andriy Ryzhenko in a comment to "Espresso.TV".
According to him, if you look at the general picture of hostilities on the contact line, you can see that the Russian Armed Forces have concentrated an extremely large number of troops in the south and east. There may be about half a million of them along the entire front, and their task is to further destabilize the situation in Ukraine and influence the mood of the population.
"When the large-scale aggression began, there were 150,000 soldiers in 7 different directions. Now, in three directions, their number is almost three times greater. The Russians are tasked with capturing the territory of the Donetsk region as much as possible and getting closer to such regional centers as Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Sumy, Kharkiv, in order to regularly shell them with long-range artillery and self-propelled guns at a distance of 50-70 km," Andriy Ryzhenko said.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is analyzing the current situation in order to deter the enemy as much as possible in the future from carrying out strategic tasks that affect a number of regional centers, said the captain of the 1st rank of the Reserve Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ugledar in Donetsk region, from which the fighters of the Defense Forces left the day before, is one of the points that the Russian occupiers have been trying to capture for a long time, and serious forces were used for this. The occupation of the city is definitely an unpleasant fact, but if you look at the strategic picture, then it will not have a significant effect on the Russians.
"Indeed, there was conflicting information about the situation there, but one must trust the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was very difficult there, because the Russian army uses attrition tactics, overwhelming the Armed Forces with a large number of means of destruction, anti-tank missiles, artillery, rocket artillery, etc.,” concluded Andriy Ryzhenko.
It will be recalled that on September 26 it was reported whether the Russian Armed Forces could force the Dnipro and recapture Kherson. According to the representative of the Southern Defense Forces, Vladyslav Voloshyn, currently the Ukrainian military has the entire island part of the Dnipro and any approaches to Kherson. The Russians are not taking any preparatory steps to carry out forcing in the future.
On September 24, it was reported that with adequate support from the West, Ukraine could launch a counteroffensive in 2025, The Washington Post wrote. However, this will also require the mobilization and expansion of the defense industry, the journalists noted.
