Amid the armistice talks, why is Ukraine focusing on attacking western Russia? | Russia-Ukraine, news war

Kyiv, Ukraine – Small groups of infantry -backed infantry men, multiple missile launchers, drones and combat aircraft are trying to seize a village.

They were attacking it for several days despite the heavy anti -attacks, bombing and drone strikes, spring rain, wet ground, and a lack of life -saving trees on trees around the village that hides camouflage soldiers.

The war correspondent concludes that the situation is still tense.

What appears to be a nice and repeated report from eastern Ukraine is actually sending a pro-generous war correspondent Yuri Coutionok from the new front line of Russia-Ukraine.

The region of Belgorod in western Russia, which is a pie of pie from oak orchards and iron ore mines, 700 km (435 miles) south of Moscow.

The village is Demidovka, which is an inconsistent rear water of less than 300 people, as the Soviet forces clashed with the Nazi Germans during World War II.

Demidovka is a stone’s goal from the border with the northern Ukrainian region in Sumi, where Russian forces failed to advance and retreat three years ago.

The village is also located about 50 km (31 miles) north of Sudzha, another city that can be forgotten in the neighboring Russian region of Kursk, which it recovered earlier this month after more than six months of Ukrainian occupation.

The Ukrainian forces still control about 100 square meters (40 square meters) between the Sudiza and the Ukrainian border – and it appears to be determined to seize the toe in Beljorod, says Ukrainian observers.

“This is not an attack. These are counter -attacks to distort the attention of Russian forces from fighting in the Corsak region,” Voludmir Vicenco, head of the Binta Thought Center in Kiev, told Al Jazerera.

Ukrainian civilian or military officials did not comment on the Baljuod operation, similar to the silence they kept on the May 2023 trip by two small groups of Russian citizens fighting for Ukraine.

The groups crossed to Beljorod, and briefly seized the village of Novaya Tafulzanka some 150 km (93 miles) southeast of Deimidovka.

The Kremlin’s acquisition was shocked, indicating how the Russian border areas were not ready for attacks by small groups of soldiers, as the regional authorities were in their place of federal funds to enhance their areas and failed to regulate the evacuation of civilians.

These days, analysts agree that KYIV needs the new Belgorod process to create a buffer zone that would prevent Russian forces from crossing to SUMY or intensify pressure on the strategic location Pokrovsk city.

“Ukrainian forces” do not need to advance towards Sumi or appear near Boucrovsk. “

He said that the Baljuod region, where the Ukrainians are advancing, is “a relatively easy goal because it is lower than the highlands controlled by the Ukrainian forces in Sumi.”

The Beljorod operation is a small attack from the Kursk attack, which began in August and tens of thousands of Russian soldiers from the confrontation line in the East Dunbas region.

“It will be good for you to repeat your corses, but I think we do not have enough forces,” Lieutenant General Air Romano, Vice President of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in Ukraine, told Al -Jazeera.

He said: “But these are asymmetric measures related to Kursk and SUMY to force the enemy to extend their forces, to show that, too, we can form insulating areas.”

Moscow responded to the operation by reducing the Sumi Administrative Center on Wednesday.

Officials said that the attack was affected by a school and many residential buildings, which resulted in at least 99, including 17 children.

The Baljuroud operation is also a realistic reminder of Moscow that Ukraine is able to strike at the Russian territory, such as the Kremlin negotiations for a 30 -day ceasefire, which was proposed by US President Donald Trump.

The first round of talks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sports I continue For 12 hours.

“The discussion was fruitful and focused – we have taken the main points, including energy,” said Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustam Omrov late on Sunday.

“The dialogue was tense, unstable, but it is useful to us and the Americans,” the head of the Russian delegation, Gregory Karasin, told RIA Novosti, which was funded by Kermlin.

On Tuesday, Russia and Ukraine Agreed Washington said that attacks on ships in the Black Sea and the energy infrastructure.

Earlier on Tuesday morning, the besieged village of Demidovka was almost deserted as the Russian war correspondent admitted that he had been assumed by the Ukrainians.

The blogger of the pro -bladeline, Vladimir Romanov, wrote the moment when the enemy reduced the road and overlooked the teeth of the dragon, “as he missed the enemy that the enemy did to detail the dragon teeth.”

Another Russian war correspondent tried to see a silver lining in the Ukrainian progress.

“Yes, this will distract some of our forces, and at the same time, it doubles the enemy losses as it must advance in very uncomfortable conditions,” Yuri Bodrolaka wrote on Telegram.

Moscow commented on the Baljuroud operation on March 18, when the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that it had “foiled” provocation “in Beljorod before a phone conversation between US President Donald Trump and his Russian view, Vladimir Putin.

She said that about 200 Ukrainian soldiers tried to cross the border “to create a negative background for conversations.”

Meanwhile, Ukrainian soldiers wander around.

“The person who cultivates the wind reaps the whirlwind and destroys his face.”

The terminated journey of civilians and the absence of Russian law has sparked reports on its widespread spread.

One of them is involved in the Russian soldiers who looted dozens of houses in the village of Ridujovka, 15 km (9.3 miles) south of Demidovka.

“Our soldiers do a good job, they protect us by entering the homes of others.”