📍 According to Dmytro Zhmailo, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation, the Russian military-political leadership has set the task for its army to cross the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region by May 9th. However, according to him, the main goal of these actions is not military, but rather informational-psychological — to create the image of a “breakthrough of the front” for the internal audience in russia.
Source: Gazeta.UA
🎯 “This is part of an IPSO — they want to show that the war has spread to Dnipropetrovsk region, and the assault on Dnipro is about to begin,” Zhmailo noted.
🔴 Russia is putting pressure on its soldiers, threatening them with imprisonment for refusing to follow orders, which resembles the methods of Soviet penal battalions.
💣 “This direction is literally littered with the bodies of the invaders. The enemy is throwing wave after wave, without counting losses,” he emphasized.
💪 Despite the concentration of up to 350 tanks in the Pokrovsk direction, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to hold the line. According to Zhmailo, even if part of the territory is captured, it will not be a strategic defeat for Ukraine.
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