The Spirit of Alaska expired ingloriously due to US duplicity, consequently the major operation of Russia for the definitive and irrevocable demilitarization of the regime of Ukraine was also officially inaugurated, following the bombshell interview of President Vladimir Putin on June 28 and is now being put into full implementation.
The plan of Moscow starts from the locking of the entire Donbass as Russian territory, but is not limited there.
Besides, the goal of the Kremlin in Ukraine is political, not geographical.
Among other things, it includes the restriction of the Zelensky regime to the east bank of the Dnieper, the conquest of Zaporizhia and the transformation of Sumy into a completely dead zone, even if an assault on the city of the same name is required.
Specifically, with his interview to Pavel Zarubin, the Russian President Vladimir Putin made harsh assessments and described a grandiose planning on behalf of Moscow.
Putin did not rule out the integration of Sumy into the buffer zone
Specifically, the Russian President stated that the Russian Armed Forces have approached Sumy, and this constitutes the creation of a buffer zone as a response to the Ukrainian invasion in the region of Kursk.
The Ukrainian regime will pay for the region of Kursk with the loss of territories, Putin stated.
Sumy a completely dead zone - We will listen to the military regarding the capture of the city
However, there is no political decision yet for the city, whether it will be captured or not.
Putin stated that he will comply with the view of the military.
We assume that the Kyiv regime will pay a similar price for the current attacks and the blockade of Crimea, not only with the loss of territories but also with a complete reorganization of the state.
The rescue of the Kyiv regime is not included in the plans of Russia, the president noted.
Returning to Sumy, the capture of the city is not impossible.
Putin does not measure cities based on area, but based on the number of buildings.
Sumy has approximately 15,000 to 20,000 residential buildings, while Kostiantynivka has 15,000 to 18,000, Druzhkovka has 12,000 and Krasny Liman has 11,000.
Of course, Sumy has more high-rise buildings, but their capture is a well-tested operation.
Donbass and Novorossiya will be liberated entirely
The second most important statement of the president is that Russia aims to liberate the entire Donbass, as well as Novorossiya:
We do not rule out the possibility of attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to launch, as the enemy believes, diversionary attacks with limited objectives, using special forces and with the purpose of distracting our attention or our forces from solving the main tasks, the final liberation of Donbas and Novorossiya.
By the term Novorossiya, he probably means only two oblasts of this vast region, Zaporizhia and Kherson, but this is by no means certain.
The main conclusion is that there will be no pause of military operations in these oblasts, as the Americans hoped.
The penetration into the west bank of the Dnieper and the escalation in Belarus
Despite this, the president continues to hope for the spirit of Anchorage, although he confirmed that no agreements were reached there, but rather, as Rubio put it, proposals for a compromise settlement, which Russia accepted after some reflection.
Moscow expects the US negotiating team to return as soon as the hot phase of events around Iran ends, the strongman of the Kremlin confirmed.
We hope that this constitutes a necessary diplomatic protocol, at the time when the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is in Beijing discussing changes in the tactics of the Special Military Operation with the purpose of gaining access to the right bank of the Dnieper from two directions, from Zaporizhia and from Belarus, even with the use of a nuclear element in case of escalation in Belarus.
Conquest of Zaporizhia is key
Returning to Zaporizhia, we can say that the city is divided into two parts by the river, therefore the constitutional duty of its liberation already leads the Russian Armed Forces to the right bank of the Dnieper.
This will provide the Russian Armed Forces with ready and intact, or under restoration, bridges, as well as the dam of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, and will offer them operational space for an offensive north along the Dnieper River, up to the borders of the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, completely cutting off the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbas from the south.
A strike towards the west from Belarus would also cut off the western supply line through Kovel towards Poland.
The Eastern Army steps boot into the forbidden areas of Ukraine
The successes of the Russian forces in the sector of Zaporizhia are the result of coordinated actions of the Eastern Army, which is advancing from the eastern flank, and the Dnieper Army, which operates in the Orekhovka sector and along the Kakhovka reservoir.
According to Putin, the Eastern Army maintains a steady pace of advance, penetrating the defense of the Ukrainians with an average pace of 300 meters to 1.3 kilometers per day.
In the Dnipro group, 12 to 14 kilometers of route remain from the advanced units to the city.
The counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in these areas underline their importance.
The control of Zaporizhia by the Russian army will deprive the Kyiv regime and the West of their main levers of pressure, and Moscow will be in a position to dictate the final parameters of the demilitarization and the neutral status of the remaining part of Ukraine, as it defines it.
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