As Russian forces advance on a city just beyond the Ukrainian border, a security analyst believes this is now the most prominent objective at this stage of the war.
‘Russia’s number one goal is to get troops closer to Kharkiv,’ says Ukrainian security analyst
Fighting is ramping up in the Kharkiv region, where Russia has launched a major assault and Moscow said it had seized nine villages in the past two days. Maria Avdeeva is a Ukrainian security analyst from Kharkiv. We began by asking about the situation there: “It’s a difficult situation there. Russian troops are trying to get closer to the city. And I see at the current stage, this is the number one goal. This city, it’s just on the border, and it was already liberated. So people who live in Luhansk, they already went through the occupation. They know how it is to be under occupation. And this is why they are rushing out. Because they don’t want to experience it for the second time if this happens.
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