Parallel armed forces of the Russian Federation with special operations against it would be strategically important for the liberation of Donbas to open a second front in southern Ukraine. This was stated by a military expert and the head of the department of the Institute of the CIS countries, Vladimir Evseyev, in an interview with URA.RU. According to him, such a decision will weaken the forces of the Ukrainian army.
& laquo; According to some reports, there is already a Russian military presence in southern Ukraine & nbsp; in the Kherson region. There may be a current offensive and & nbsp; there & laquo ;, & mdash; said the expert.
He added that now the Ukrainian Armed Forces have concentrated all their main forces to prevent the Russian Armed Forces from encircling the Lysychan Group, and the regrouping of troops will take some time.
p> < Yevseev also stressed that if it were possible to liberate the Nikolaev region and take control of the Odessa region, then the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be forced to fight on two fronts, which would significantly disperse them.
In addition, the political scientist added. that arms supplies to Kiev could only be stopped by taking control of Odessa.