Only 60% of the area: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation occupied four villages under Sumy and approached Lockney - isw (maps)

The Institute for the Study of the War analyzed the statements of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which were heard on April 26-27, the posts of Russian Milblograries, video of the Drone Drone operators and OSINT Analytors data on the points of blows on the hiding places of the Russians. Analysts have acknowledged that the enemy really moved north of Sumy and occupied four villages in the Sumy region. It's about Veselivka, Crane, New and Basivka.

In addition, the geolocation of the Drones of the Armed Forces showed attempts to attack the Russians even further from the border - near Lockney (that is, 4 km from Basivka). At the same time, on April 27, ISW wrote that the Russians really advanced in Locke along the H07 highway, but did not confirm the breakthrough in the area of ​​the village of Oleshnya Kursk region.

ISW denied some of the statements of the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov. On April 26, Gerasimov reported to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin about the invasion of the territory of Sumy region of Ukraine and about the control of 100 square meters. km. Analysts checked these statements and assured that it was a smaller area - 54 square meters. km (this is 60% of the declared).

"The Russian military is trying to create a buffer zone in the border of Sumy region," - Isw brought a fragment of plans voiced by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It should be noted that on April 28, the journalist "Border. Media" Alona Yatsina told about the offensive of the Russian Federation in the Sumy region, which began, approximately, in February 2025. According to her, the Russians really seized villages on the border north of Sumy.

On the Deepstate analysts map, these villages are marked in the gray zone, and the hostilities area tells the specified ISW - 54 square meters. km. The journalist also said that the enemy went on the outskirts of the village of Belovov and was fighting under Locke. Yatsina reported the tactics of the enemy, who throws small assault groups on motorcycles so that they may flow past the Drones of the Armed Forces at speed.

The Russians use ravines near the villages of Sumy region to get to the outskirts, she added. The General Staff in the report for April 28 did not confirm the information on the promotion of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Sumy region. At the same time, the SPSU spokesman Andriy Demchenko stated that the enemy is trying to "squeeze" and throws a departure groups forward.