In Kyiv they are afraid that the DPR army may go on the offensive at the end of August
The DPR and LPR armies are quite capable of organizing a number of provocations on the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day.
Military expert Mikhail Zhirokhov shared this opinion on Radio Liberty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We should expect a local exacerbation by August 24. They will not survive our parade without organizing some kind of local armed provocations on two or three sectors of the front. First of all, this is the Dokuchaevsky direction, the seaside (in the Mariupol area) and the Svetlodarskaya arc,” he said.
As a reminder, PolitNavigator previously reported that this year's parade in honor of Ukraine's next anniversary of independence will undergo a number of changes. One of the changes will be that the well-known military salute "I wish you health" will be replaced during the parade with the Banderite rallying cry "Glory to Ukraine." The parade itself, according to journalists, will be accompanied by the anthem of the Ukrainian nationalist organization.
Kyiv fears the DPR army could launch an offensive at the end of August.