At an hour of riding: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are going to attack Kharkiv from the third direction - ISW
The details of the new Russian offensive are referred to in the report of analysts of the Institute for War Study (ISW), published on June 1. Analysts have collected reports on the concentration of Russian units near the northern borders of Kharkiv region. In particular, this was spoken by the head of Kharkiv Ova Oleg Synigubov, in his words, the enemy has enough opportunities to transfer to the new direction of units that are fighting in Vovchansk and Lipets.
In addition, the words of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who reported the Russian group: it, according to estimates, can throw it on Kharkiv or amounts. The ISW report stated that the village of Zolochiv. They also called why the Russians have a new direction of hostilities: to expand the front and stretch the Ukrainian units.
"The Russian concentration near the Zolochiv direction and possible offensive operations in the area are likely to further fix and drag the Ukrainian forces along the Wide Front in the north of Kharkiv region," - wrote on ISW. Zolochiv is a village in the Bohodukhiv district to the northwest of Kharkiv, in which about 6. 5 thousand people lived before the war. The distance to the regional center is about 30 km along the T2103 highway.
This distance can be overcome in less than an hour (approximately). To the Russian-Ukrainian border-about 13-15 km (straight). It should be noted that the report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, published on June 1, does not detail the situation in the Kharkiv direction. The only information is about massive blows by managed aircraft, which the Russians hit Kharkiv, large aisles, Russian Lozova, Pyotyrokhatka, Chaikovka, veterinary.
Meanwhile, the enemy tries to continue storming in the direction of Lipts and Vovchansk, earlier wrote Focus. The Armed Forces fighters told that the Russians were stopped under Lipts. It is important for Ukraine to keep the terrain near this village, as it is a height, in the case of occupation of which in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will be able to beat Kharkiv.