Russia shells Sumy because of AFU's success in Kursk region

Russian troops are shelling the Sumy region because they see Ukrainian troops making progress in the Kursk region of Russia. However, the shelling would have continued in any case.

This was stated by the spokesman for the Siversk military unit Vadym Misnyk, RBC-Ukraine reports citing Radio Liberty.

“It's just a matter of time before they dump all this on us. Either here or elsewhere. But they will hit Ukraine with everything they have, using the entire arsenal,” he said.

According to him, the Russians “see our successes in the Kursk operation, and they are already near them, so there is probably some fear that we will somehow act in other cities along the border.”

Instead, Mysnyk says, the Russian military has reduced the number of mortar attacks on the border of Sumy region and stopped firing on Kharkiv region with anti-aircraft guns.

“Either the number of mortar attacks has significantly decreased or there are no mortar attacks in some regions at all. We do not give the enemy such a close combat, literally a few kilometers,” he said.

According to him, when the enemy tried to conduct offensive actions in the Kharkiv sector, the shelling of Sumy region by the Ukrainian military stopped completely.

“They literally stopped. There were no helicopter attacks, no airplane attacks, no KABs, no one. That is, they concentrated on the Kharkiv direction, which means that their resources are not unlimited. They have to do something somewhere, but elsewhere it stops altogether,” he said.

Mr. Misnyk said that with the start of the Kursk operation, the situation in Ukraine has changed to the opposite. “For example, in Kharkiv region, they say that the shelling by KABs, where they razed Vovchansk and other settlements to the ground, has stopped, but it is in Sumy that the shelling has intensified,” he explained.

Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 17/09/2024