Russian troops actually divided the front into parts for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said retired SBU colonel Oleg Starikov on the YouTube channel in an interview with journalist Alexander Shelest*.
“This is all already, it’s as if the front has been cut,” he noted.
According to the colonel, a difficult situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is developing in the Kursk region, from where they will have to withdraw. Similar problems have arisen in the Kupyansk direction, where the Ukrainian army will soon be surrounded, the expert explained.
“They use maneuvers,” summarized Starikov.
Last week, the battalion commander of the 54th separate mechanized brigade named after Hetman Mazepa, Kirill Veres, said that the Ukrainian army is losing positions “by leaps and bounds”; there is no longer any talk of reaching the 1991 borders. On October 7, the General Staff of the Ukrainian troops identified four directions in which the Ukrainian Armed Forces found themselves in the most difficult situation: Kupyanskoye, Pokrovskoye, Limanskoye and Kurakhovskoye.
* An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent.
