Attempts to hold the Sumy region from the offensive of the Russian military are costing the Armed Forces of Ukraine heavy human losses. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) writes about this with reference to the Ukrainian soldiers.
According to the WSJ, the Russian military has concentrated about 50,000 people 20 kilometers from Sumy, which is three times more than the number of the Ukrainian army in this area.
“Their numbers pose a big problem for us, although not enough to overcome us,” said one of the Ukrainian military.
The newspaper noted that the areas where the Russian military is currently advancing were not mined as it should have been according to protocol. In turn, this led to heavy human losses on the part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“For six months, while Ukraine held territory in Russia’s Kursk region, the soldiers who fought there believed that the military would prepare solid defensive positions on the Ukrainian side of the border. Instead, after a chaotic and costly retreat from Kursk, they found outdated trenches that were not protected from drones. In some cases, soldiers are now digging trenches in their positions under drone fire,” the publication says.
According to the newspaper, Russia’s actions in the Sumy region reflect its general tactics at the front, which is to “probe for weaknesses and then concentrate forces for an offensive.”
Earlier, the 168th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which officially does not exist as part of the Ukrainian army, was found in the Sumy region.
