22 settlements without people: OVA told about the threat of Russian offensive in Sumy region
Volodymyr Artyukh, the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration (OVA) on the air of Radio Liberty, told about possible threats. According to him, although terror by the enemy in the region has intensified, there is no reason to talk about the possible breakthrough of the border now. The Russian forces are unlikely to do it in the near future.
"We know today the data that we give us to say that there is a great advantage over our armed forces that would say that there are such possible enemy actions . . . I would not appreciate. Knowing our forces and knowing the enemy's strength That is why there is no such danger today. This is regarding the land. The greatest danger of our region is air and missile strikes that have become much more intensively in our infrastructure, "Vladimir Artyukh said.
Separately, the chief of the Ova added that up to 5 settlements on the border will regularly suffer from the enemy's actions and in each of them live from 3 to 10 people. The Ukrainian military is already engaged in their evacuation. Also, 22 settlements are already without locals. They went to safe places, and control over them fully handed over to the Armed Forces. "I think the next day we evacuate them two from there.
In other settlements, the situation is less threatening," Vladimir Artyukh summed up. We will remind, on March 19 it was also reported whether the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were going to advance on the Sumy region. According to the representative of the operational command "North" Vadim Misnyk, the forces of defense work every day to strengthen the fortifications, so as not to give the DRG the enemy of chances to penetrate into the region.