The Ukrainian Armed Forces have thwarted the Russian Federation's plans for rapid capture of major Ukrainian cities and forced the enemy to turn their attention in one direction, said Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Aleksei Gromov, APA reports.
“Thanks to taken measures, and heroism of Ukrainian people we prevented enemy siege of Kyiv rapidly, and plans capturing Nikolayev, Odessa, Chernigov, Sumin, we forced them to give up their aggressive plans and turn their attention in one direction,” noted Aleksei Gromov.