Walking in foot groups: the Armed Forces are trying to cross the border in the Sumy region (video)

The detachment is part of its brigade in the Sumy region, on the state border with the Russian Federation. According to Ivan Shevtsov, the situation in Sumy region and Kurshchyna remains tense. "The enemy continues to intensify. And by recent Russian address, we understand that Sumy region is one of the priority areas today, because the enemy will try to seize a certain territory of Sumy region for the next negotiations," the colonel said.

According to him, the number of shelling increases, and from which border settlements suffer. The evacuation of people close to the border of villages and towns. The military added that the tactic of the enemy is constantly changing. Last year, the Russians used heavy equipment more actively, then in 2025 on the Sumy section of the front began to move small groups on motorcycles, quad bikes and many.

"As for the enemy's attempts to cross the state border, it is in the Sumy direction that they are mostly hiking. In groups of 8-10 servicemen, they try to go on a pedestrian order. The area in Sumy region is mostly wooded, and this does not allow the use of equipment,"-explained the head of the detachment. On May 19, the head of Sumy Regional Military Administration announced evacuation from more than 200 settlements due to increased shelling and deterioration of the security situation.

The head of the Glushkovsky district of Kursk region Pavel Zolotarev during a meeting of municipal heads with the President of the Russian Federation on May 21 urged Vladimir Putin to seize new regions of Ukraine in particular Sumy region and a regional center - Sumy, so that the Russians in the Kurshchyna did not live "as a peninsula". On May 21, the military analyst Ivan Stupak told where the Armed Forces were trying to break through the front.