Ukraine's Defence Ministry expects Russia to increase airstrikes
Denys Karlovskyi — Thursday, 2 June 2022, 17:29
Ukrainian military intelligence predicts that Russian occupation forces will increase air and missile strikes on critical infrastructure and try to capture the entire Black Sea coast of Ukraine up to Transnistria.
Source: briefing of Brigadier General Oleksii Hromov, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at the Ukraine Media Center
Hromov's quote: "For the Russian Federation the priority will be:
- increasing the intensity of air and missile strikes on civilian and military facilities throughout Ukraine;
- continuing the total destruction of critical infrastructure and civilians."
Details: Ukrainian intelligence is confident that the Russian invaders will focus on encircling and destroying groups of the Joint Forces in the Donbas, and will then maintain a land corridor from Rostov Oblast to Crimea.
According to Hromov, in the future the Russian occupying forces want to capture all southern oblasts of Ukraine and to gain control from Transnistria to Rostov.
The occupiers are also trying to identify the supply routes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and to destroy warehouses of equipment and ammunition. Their goal is to disrupt arms supplies from Western partners.
Background:
- The UK Ministry of Defence has said that the Russian occupation forces are likely to focus on capturing the entire Donetsk Oblast and on a forced crossing of the Siverskyi Donets River, but they will have to make a pause. At the same time, a break in the offensive could thwart Russia's plans, according to the British Ministry of Military Intelligence.
- According to the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers are afraid to take supplies and ammunition to their advanced units in case this proves fatal.
