"Russia gathers 50,000 troops around Sum, trying to overwhelm just the number of soldiers"

"Wall Street Journal" on Sunday reported ongoing advancement of Russian forces outside and west of Donetsk, describing that troops find now within 12 miles of the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy.

"After almost complete displacement of Ukrainian forces from the Russian Kursk Oblast at the beginning of this year, Russian forces now diverged across the border in the other direction towards Sum" – read In the report. "Of the 50,000 troops in this area, they outnumber Ukrainians about 3 to 1"according to soldiers fighting there."

For long-term war observers, it should not be amazing that Moscow bearing slow victory by destroying and exhaustion of the another side's abilities.

The highest Ukrainian military commander said of the Russians that "their main strategy is “weary of our numbers”. This besides applies to Russia's better supply of artillery, which at the beginning of the war was said to exceed the number of missiles of Ukraine by 10 to one.

"WSJ" reports that Ukraine has deployed a peculiar force unit "Timur" in positions close Sum in a desperate effort to slow down the Russian attack.

One of the commanders of Ukrainian units admitted in a message for publication that "counts are a large problem for us, but not adequate to defeat us." The fact remains that "the enemy loses between 300 and 400 people a day throughout the region," he said. "But they can handle the level of casualties... They keep bringing in the reserves."

Ukrainian officials believe that Russia is resisting in the Summarist Oblast mainly on poorly trained, large groups of "meat storms"which aim simply to overwhelm the Ukrainian side.

However, mixed and contradictory reports from the front lines appeared. Ukrainian commanders at the end of last week claimed to have stopped the Russian attack on Suma.

Associated Press Agency notes that the Russian invasion of Sum was possible after recovery Currant:

In March, Ukrainian forces withdrew from much of the neighbouring part of Russia's Kurd region, any of which controlled after unexpected cross-border attack August.

This retreat enabled Russia to launch a counteroffensive which, according to various estimates, went from 2 to 12 kilometres (1-7 miles) into Ukraine's territory.

And fresh reports from the WSJ combine a weak defence situation outside Suma with a hazard of besides much hazard in the invasion range Zelenski on Kurków:

During the six months erstwhile Ukraine maintained territory in the Russian Kursk Oblast, the soldiers who fought there said they assumed that the military would prepare strong defensive positions on the Ukrainian side of the border. Instead, after a chaotic and costly retreat from Kursk, they found obsolete trenches, devoid of bird's eye cover from the drones. Soldiers are now digging their own positions under drone fire.

Since the end of May, Russian forces have taken control of the border villages of Nowenke, Żurawka, Weselówka and Basiwka, Hryhorów in the area of the Suma region as part of work on the buffer region plan announced by Putin.

New recording of Sum in Russian state media:

💥RUSSIAN STRENGTHENING DESTROYING THE UKRAIN BASE
The "Geran" military drones hit the Sumsk region hard — Ukrainian military positions and the drone warehouse were destroyed close the city of Konotop. .twitter.com/JU6TA3q8aj

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) 30 June 2025.

As for the city of Sumy, it lies only 18 miles from the border with Russia, and has suffered from occasional air strikes and shelling since the start of the war. The influx of Russian troops greatly expands what both parties consider to be a frontline of fighting.

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source:https://www.zerohedge.com/