Russia readying to assault Sumy as Donbas entrance stabilizes, Zelensky says

Russian troopers are amassing on the border to arrange to launch an assault on Ukraine's northeastern Sumy area, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on March 15.

Zelensky stated in a publish on Telegram that Ukraine has noticed areas alongside its japanese border the place the Russian military is amassing power. "This speaks to a want to ship a strike to our Sumy Oblast," Zelensky wrote. "We perceive this and can take countermeasures."

The Ukrainian president additionally wrote that he hopes overseas leaders would be aware "that in Moscow they’re getting ready to disregard diplomacy."

U.S. diplomats have been in Moscow this week to hash out a ceasefire cope with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who stays maximalist in his public calls for for concessions from Ukraine. After talks in Saudi Arabia between the U.S. and Ukraine, Kyiv stated it was prepared to maneuver ahead with a ceasefire, supplied Russia did the identical.

Zelensky additionally wrote that "the state of affairs on the Pokrovsk entrance has stabilized" after a number of months throughout which the town in Donetsk Oblast had been on the middle of combating and periodic threats of Russian encirclement.

Extra not too long ago, Russia has made main advances in Kursk Oblast, a territory in Russia that Ukrainian forces took in August and which Zelensky's administration had hoped to make use of as leverage in negotiations.

Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief has refuted latest stories that Ukrainian troops have been beneath risk of encirclement in Kursk Oblast as Russia pushed additional into Ukrainian-held Russian territory.

"Due to our Ukrainian forces, a big amount of Russian forces have been pulled away from different fronts to Kursk Oblast," Zelensky wrote.

Russian troops ‘bogged down’ near Pokrovsk, Ukrainian military claims“I am not saying that Ukrainian forces caught some second, third, or 100th and 500th breath… But Russian troops have indeed begun to show some physical, moral, and material exhaustion,” said Viktor Trehubov, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Khortytsia group of forces.The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Denisova