Not only the Donbass admiration: GUR told about the strategic goals of the Russian Federation at the front in 2024
This was reported by a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR MOU) Vadim Skibitsky in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. "Apparently, we will start from what strategic goals the Russian Federation sets for themselves. What they tried to do and achieve from the beginning of the so -called" special military operation "has not been achieved," Vadim Skybitsky said.
He noted that one of the strategic goals that remains in Moscow is to enter the administrative borders of Lugansk and Donetsk regions. According to the documents available to intelligence, the Russian military will try to keep the temporarily occupied territories, namely Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and part of Kharkiv region.
In addition, Vadim Skybitsky says that the enemy has identified the destruction of the Ukrainian air defense system, aviation, and facilities of the defense-industrial complex for himself. In particular, the enemy wants this to prevent the increase of Ukrainian production and strengthen the capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "These are the tasks that the Russian Federation sees it today," said GUR MOU representative.
We will remind, the representative of GUR MOU Vadim Skibitsky stated that the current Russian missile shelling was aimed at objects of the defense-industrial complex, not energy, as it was last year. The main efforts of the enemy are focused on the destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure. On January 12, the adviser to the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak said that Russia has not been able to continue to finance the war to the extent that it would like to, because of international sanctions.