Russia will conduct another major attempt to overthrow Ukraine's government in the coming months, according to Ukraine's top general.
“The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops,” Ukrainian Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, his nation’s top military commander, said in a newly published discussion of the war in Ukraine. “I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv.”A frenzy of activity by the warring sides thus is underway despite the public international perception of a slowdown in the fighting in the weeks since Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson.
“We are constantly strengthening our air defense and anti-drone defense,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday."And we are doing everything to get more modern and more powerful systems for Ukraine. This week, we have made important progress on the air defense issue.” The ferocity of the conflict has reinforced the social, political, and military case in Ukraine for continuing the fight, contrary to international speculation that the liberation of Kherson might lead to a ceasefire, notwithstanding Russia’s continuing occupation of other Ukrainian territory.
Russia’s targeting of the energy infrastructure is an attempt to inflict enough pain to “get a pause by any means,” according to Zaluzhny.
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