"There is no so much": a 500,000th army is required for Kharkiv occupation-an expert

The military-political columnist Alexander Kovalenko noted that Russia has attracted approximately 120,000 soldiers to capture Avdiivka. He is convinced that to form a shock group for the offensive on Kharkiv would not work for Ukraine. In Russia, Meduza, citing sources in Moscow, reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to capture Kharkiv and plans a new offensive. The military-political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko evaluated this probability.

He noted that he sees the loosening of the information space about the threat of Kharkiv's occupation for a "month. " "The threat to Kharkiv was, is and will be, until the war is over. But the threat should be evaluated rationally and healthy, not panic and reckless," the expert emphasized. He stressed that information about the offensive on Kharkiv appeared in the Russian information resource.

Kovalenko recalled that about 120,000 people were attracted to the occupation of Avdiivka with an area of ​​29 square kilometers of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, except for the wounded compensation. I am only in the peak phase of the operation were attended by 80 thousand invaders, having about 15 thousand in the reserve. The compensation of the dead fighters exceeded 20,000 people.

The observer is convinced that at least 500,000 soldiers are required to attack Kharkiv, the city's environment, and to solve city fights of Russia. In addition, they must be fully staffed. The reserve should be at least 100-150 thousand people. "In the formation of such a shock group, we can talk about the growth danger to Kharkiv, but there is a matter that there is no such number of Russian occupation troops even in temporarily occupied territories in the war zone," Kovalenko said.

He added that it would not be able to provide such a group in the short term of Moscow. It is a long process that could not be hidden from Ukraine and avoiding the "relevant reaction". We will remind, to report on the plans of the Kremlin about Kharkiv was reacted by the head of the local OVA Oleg Synigubov. He recalled that the enemy is threatening the occupation of the city for the first time.