According to the expert, there are no indications that Ukraine’s attack across the Belgorod border into Russia was a major operation.
The Belgorod attack has hardly been very significant, estimates an expert who follows the war in Ukraine John Helin Up in the morning.
The Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday that Ukraine had attacked the Belgorod border into Russian territory. The news agency based its information on Russian Telegram channels.
According to Helin, Ukraine has now made small attacks and crossed the Russian border in the area between Kharkiv and Sumy in order to take propaganda pictures in the villages of the border region.
According to Helin, there have been no images corresponding to the attack on Belgorod or information that the border was crossed in a significant way.
– It seems that quite limited movement is being talked about.
Also Ylen’s reporter in Kyiv Antti Kuronen said on Wednesday in the morning of that the accuracy of the information is very uncertain.
According to Kuronen, on the other hand, there would hardly be any talk of the matter in Ukraine, if the counterattack in Belgorod has been started.
– In the Kursk operation, the president Volodymyr Zelenskyi told yesterday that only a very small group of Ukrainians even knew about the whole attack in advance, says Kuronen.
Ukraine has occupied territories on Russian soil in Kursk during August. According to Helin, the attack on Belgorod does not seem to have opened a new direction for the operation.