The sanitary zone, which will protect the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions of Russia from shelling, should be located in the Chernigov and Sumy regions of Ukraine, that is, along the entire border of the two countries. About this in a conversation with Lenta.ru told military expert, captain of the first rank of the reserve Vasily Dandykin.
“Already now, the enemy is withdrawing the population from many villages and towns deep into the territory of Ukraine, evacuating them in order to go into huts and houses and continue to carry out dirty tricks. Move them back several tens of kilometers, maybe even up to a hundred kilometers, so that he cannot use multiple launch rocket systems, for example HIMARS, which fires up to 80 kilometers,” he believes.
The expert noted that the length of the Russian-Ukrainian border is thousands of kilometers and has a very different landscape – forests, steppes, swamps. According to Dandykin, there should be a “gray zone” there, where there will be neither civilians nor enemy units. Such a territory will make it possible to keep the Ukrainian side at a distance, as well as eliminate the risks of infiltration by saboteurs and mortar attacks, the Lenta.ru interlocutor added.
At a press conference following the election results, Russian President Vladimir Putin allowed the creation of a “security zone” on the border between Russia and Ukraine, which would be “difficult to overcome” for the enemy using Western military equipment.
Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov later explained to reporters that once morest the backdrop of shelling of Russian border regions, the government would consider measures “to secure these territories,” reported TASS. For this, as Peskov noted, we need some kind of “corridor” or “buffer zone” between Russia and Ukraine.
