"For several days, almost a week, we have been observing almost a
doubling of the number of enemy attacks in all main directions (on the
frontline)," he said.
KYIV,
April 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine's military chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said in
an interview published on Wednesday that Russia had launched a new
offensive on the northeast of the country, adding that a large increase
in assaults was already being observed.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had warned earlier that Russia was preparing an offensive on the two regions of Kharkiv and Sumy.
Moscow is close
to fully pushing Ukrainian forces out of their foothold in Kursk
region, which they held since last August and which lies over the border
from Sumy region.
Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukrainian forces were also present in the adjacent Russian region of Belgorod.
The war,
the first year of which was marked by rapid Russian territorial gains
followed by Ukrainian counter-attacks, has since become far more of a
battlefield stalemate, with Moscow grinding out relatively small gains
by attacking with wave after wave of infantry squads.
Ukraine’s military chief ‘must go’, says commander who quit to speak out
Oleksandr Syrskyi risking lives with ‘borderline criminal’ orders, says Bohdan Krotevych, former Azov brigade leader
". . .Ukraine had failed to find a way of prosecuting manoeuvre warfare while “the enemy somehow manages to break through our lines every month”, Krotevych complained.
“Syrskyi
is not trying to apply a high science and an art of war,” Krotevych
said, accusing him of having “just two functions: if the enemy is
attacking, you just throw more people in there.
And if the enemy is
overwhelming, withdraw the people and say that you’re concerned about
the lives of the people.”
Ukraine has been gradually losing territory throughout 2024 and 2025 as Russian forces first advanced from Avdiivka in the east towards Donbas, before Moscow’s main effort switched to eliminating the Kursk incursion.
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