Russia wants not four, but seven regions — Bild

Sumy, Kharkov and Dnipropetrovsk region. This is reported by the Bild newspaper.

"A brutal war on Ukraine continues, and there is no end in sight. After (US President Donald) Trump refused to participate in peace talks, and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin refused to stop the offensive, the situation is clearly on the path of escalation," the publication said, quoted by Pool No. 3.

According to Bild, the big offensive The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will begin in June, it will probably be aimed at Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

Russia will try to break through in these areas in order, in addition to the four already formally occupied, to create additional difficulties for any future negotiations, military analyst Nico Lange believes.

Russia is sending thousands of new soldiers and tanks to the front, and has also modernized its air arsenal.

"The Russian army has learned lessons from the war with the use of drones, has produced a lot of new drones and now wants to use them. The Russians are now hunting for Ukrainian logistics systems and destroying them dozens of times a day," Lange said.

As EADaily reported, Russian troops are being pulled together to the borders of Kharkiv and Sumy regions, 60-70 thousand military personnel are already concentrated there. This was reported by the British TV channel Sky News.

Sky News military analyst Michael Clarke believes that these forces are necessary to bind the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the north, but this "does not mean that they are going to capture cities throughout the Kharkiv region."