Russian forces entered 100 kilometers into Ukraine without any resistance, says Denis Yaroslavsky
With the attention of the West focused on Gaza and the tragic and dangerous developments in the Middle East and combined with the – as it turns out – inability of the Western powers to support with arms two allies in wars, the Russia took the opportunity and invaded Ukrainian territory. There is no longer any doubt that Russian forces prevail. This is now being declared by the Ukrainian soldiers themselves, whose morale has begun to decline decisively.
THE Denis Yaroslavsky he is angry As Commander of a Ukrainian special reconnaissance unit, he participated in Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Kharkiv in the fall of 2022, when the Russian invasion was pushed back to the border.
Russian forces have now made small but significant gains right along the border in the Kharkiv area.
Their advance is only a few miles into Ukrainian territory, but they have reached about 100 kilometers deep into Ukrainian territory in a matter of days. Something similar, when the Russians found resistance from them Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine, it took months to achieve the same.
Denis talks to the BBC about what happened to Ukraine’s defences. “There was no first line of defense. We saw it. The Russians just went in and they didn’t even find mined fields,” he says. Pictures from drone they show the Russian troops just walking, without any resistance.
He says officials had claimed defenses were being built at huge cost, but in his view, those defenses simply did not exist. “Either it was an act of negligence or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was treason.”
Everyone knew this invasion was likely to happen. Both Ukrainian and Western intelligence knew that Russia had massed forces across the border, with estimates of 30,000 soldiers.
President Vladimir Putin has also publicly stated his aim to create a buffer zone in the Kharkiv region to protect Russian territory from Ukrainian artillery attacks. But Ukraine appears to have been ill-prepared.
Denis, speaking from a park in Kharkiv, says that within an hour he will be back on the front line with his men near the town of Vovchansk, just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the Russian border. Russian troops have already entered the outskirts of the city and as the Ukrainian soldier states, he is very afraid that Kharkiv will soon return to Russian hands.
Source :Skai
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