"Will be symbolic": GUR told about the goals of the occupiers in Ukraine before the election of the President of the Russian Federation

According to Vadim Skibitsky, Deputy Head of Ukrainian Intelligence, the enemy intends to move into active defense to keep the captured territories under his control. The activity on the front will continue. Next month, the next presidential election will take place in Russia, where the main candidate is the current leader Vladimir Putin.

The deputy head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense (GUR MOU) Vadim Skibitsky in an interview "Interfax-Ukraine" told what the goals will be in the Russian invaders during this period. According to him, one of the tasks of the enemy today is to keep the territories that he has temporarily taken under control. Accordingly, the Russians will actively defense and will try to reject the Ukrainian side into a more distant position.

It is important for the Armed Forces at this point to support partners and develop their own production, as the Kremlin intends to wage a long war on exhaustion. "Before the elections, they specifically want to go at least at the Luhansk region's administration. Have some success, something like Avdiivka, perhaps somewhere in some direction. There are key points: Kupyansk, Lyman, Avdiivka. Why Kupy Yansk, Liman? To show that Ukraine was released by Ukraine after full -scale aggression began.

Because it will be symbolic, "Vadim Skibitsky said. Separately, the representative of Ukrainian intelligence added that all of the above is an element that the enemy will actively use in his information and psychological operations, actions and in the information space in general. We will remind, on February 20 it was reported that the military-political observer Alexander Kovalenko named 2 directions where the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation after the presidential elections are activated.