The military expert called the main sign of Russia’s preparations for an attack on Ukraine
According to Zhdanov, Russian troops near the border with Ukraine are not the first year.
Zhdanov explained that evidence of aggressive plans of the Russian Federation / photo function.mil.ru
The main sign of Russia’s preparations for a new attack on Ukraine will be the accumulation of its troops in a 50-kilometer zone along the border.
This opinion was expressed by military expert O. Zhdanov on TV “Ukraine 24“.
According to him, if you count all the military of the Russian Federation, located in the European part of the Federation, there will be about a million.
“The thing that represents the map presented by The Washington Post is the map of the permanent locations of troops. They have been there for decades, until 2014. These are called” winter apartments “, we knew about their existence,” – to speak Zhdanov.
He added that the country’s preparations for war could be decided on the basis of generally accepted intelligence.
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“The first sign is the accumulation of material and technical means along the borders of the country against which aggression is being prepared. , brings units there to operational areas, then we will understand that Russia is moving to the military rails, “Zhdanov explained.
He also predicted that Russia’s confrontation with the West would affect the site in Donbass – it will intensify.
“At the front, we will expect a possible increase in the number of shellings and increase their firepower in terms of tasks that we will lose. Unfortunately, the situation is moving into a larger confrontational line of demarcation,” – said the expert.
Exacerbation on the border of Ukraine and Russia
On November 11, Bloomberg published an article discussing the risks associated with Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The agencies noted that American and European diplomats are seriously concerned about the current movement of Russian troops towards the Ukrainian border.
Moscow itself denies this, calling the autumn redeployment a military “demonstration force.”
In early November, the Western media began to disclose information based on satellite images of the active movement of Russian troops to the border with Ukraine.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine denied this information.
This is another probable wave of aggravation on the Russian-Ukrainian border since March 2021. However, according to Bloomberg, the concentration of Russia’s military forces in the emergence of political forces, then in the spring in the Kremlin openly threatened the next, whose pressure on Ukraine, the EU and the United States.