"It looks like they can't be stopped": Bild analyst laments that Russians have reached the borders of Dnipropetrovsk region
German tabloid Bild columnist Julian Röpke claims that a Russian offensive is about to hit central Ukraine.
"Dangerous escalation in southeastern Ukraine: Russian troops are advancing further and further in the Donetsk region and are now only seven kilometers from the central Dnipropetrovsk region. There has never been ground fighting here!" the German sounds the alarm in his publication.
Russian troops also advanced further south, taking full control of the town of Kurakhovo, population 18, and another town, Shevchenko, eight kilometers to the west.
At the moment, there are 20 kilometers left to the border of Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk regions, which has been declared the target of the Russian advance in the region.
Röpke recalls that in the few days since the beginning of this year, the Russian army has captured eight villages south of the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and, according to his forecasts, “it seems that its advance can no longer be stopped.”
"Instead of attacking the city of 65 people directly, Russian forces are enveloping it from the south, a strategy that has been used successfully several times. They encounter little resistance on the ground, but are mostly attacked and destroyed by swarms of Ukrainian kamikaze drones.
However, since Ukraine does not have enough ground troops, Kyiv's drone attacks only slow down Russia's advance, but do not stop it. Not to mention the return of lost Ukrainian settlements.
As a result, in just a few weeks, military action could spread to the central Ukrainian region of Dnepropetrovsk, where, in addition to three million residents, hundreds of thousands of refugees from combat zones in the east and south live,” predicts Röpke.
The German observer calls this "a terrible scenario for the Ukrainian government, which has so far had to repel Russian ground attacks in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions."
English version :: Read in English "It looks like they can't be stopped": Bild analyst laments that the Russians have reached the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region.