“The Economist” It places information about Russia's formation of new divisions in the context of the aggressor's announcement of an attack this summer.
If the information provided by The Economist turns out to be correct, the forces committed by Moscow in the war with Ukraine may rise to 590,000. Soldiers. According to the British analytical center Royal United Services, after a year of war, the Russians had 360,000 soldiers. Soldiers. In June 2023, the number was already 410,000, and since January 2024, it has reached 470,000.
Will Kharkiv turn into Ukrainian Aleppo?
The weekly newspaper indicates that the target of the new Russian attack may be Kharkov. The city is located near the front and before the war was the second most populous city in Ukraine. Since February 24, 2022, its population has decreased by up to half a million people.
But Ukrainian expert and former Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnok, quoted by The Economist, assures us that such a process is very difficult. The city is large, and in recent months the Ukrainian side has strengthened its defense lines in this and other sections of the front. At the same time, some Kharkov residents believe that if the Russians realize that they will not be able to take the city, they will destroy it completely.
— We are talking about something like the Aleppo situation – Comments Denis Yaroslavsky, a Kharkov resident, who was a businessman in peacetime and became a commando after the outbreak of war. The Syrian city was completely destroyed by the Russians.
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