"These are different things": the NSDC explained the words of Budanov about the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the north

The head of the Center for Combating Misinformation Andriy Kovalenko noted that it is not necessary to confuse "North", which was spoken by the head of GUR, with Belarus. There is currently no threat to the offensive from Belarus. This was stated by the head of the Center for Combating Misinformation (CPD) at the National Security Council of Ukraine Andriy Kovalenko on Telegram.

He commented on the words of the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kiril Budanov on the threat of offensive from the north. "Many people for some reason confuse the north, which Budanov says, and Belarus. These are different things. There are no threats of offensive from Belarus," Kovalenko assured.

On July 14, the General Staff of the Armed Forces in the morning summary reported that at the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions the enemy retains military presence. "There were no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy in the Volyn and Polissya directions," the General Staff noted.

We will remind, on July 13, the head of GUR Kirill Budanov in an interview with the NV edition on the question of mobilization in the near future 300 thousand Russians and how it will affect the offensive The north will be an attack ", the intelligence said" it will not be ", and in the end," nothing was ".

However, at the moment when the GUR was informed that there would be an offensive from the north now, then "everyone immediately: maybe it will not be?" He added that the attack will be and "it is already ongoing. " To clarify whether it was a Sumy or Chernihiv direction, the head of military intelligence refused to answer because it "still provokes panic. " "Let's say, there are problems, they tend to exacerbate. There will be no catastrophe, but I will not see the problems.