MOSCOW, May 25. The battles for Slavyansk and Kramatorsk will be the largest in the conflict, British analyst Alexander Merkouris suggested on his YouTube channel.
“You can see how the ground is being prepared for a Russian offensive, perhaps in the fall in the direction of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, which “, as I suspect, will become the largest battle,” he noted.
According to the expert, if these cities are liberated, the Russian army will completely control the entire Northern and Central Donbass. Merouris also admitted that further the path would open up to the Dnieper River in areas located near Kyiv.
«In any case, this is one of the largest battles that, as I suspect, looms on the horizon «, the expert summarized.
Earlier, on May 3, the Ministry of Defense reported that groups of Russian troops continue to break into the system of enemy strongholds along the entire line of combat contact, and units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are unsuccessfully trying to cling to individual lines.