About 20 percent of the Russian forces around Kyiv, and some forces near the Chernobyl nuclear site, are in various stages of moving north away from the capital, the Pentagon said, with some personnel crossing into Belarus.
on major cities, in what Moscow characterized this week as a show of good faith amid ongoing peace negotiations.
Rather, the Pentagon’s current intelligence assessment is that Russia intends to “refit these troops, resupply them and probably employ them elsewhere in Ukraine,” spokesman John Kirby told reporters, indicating that the Donbas region in Ukraine’s east has emerged as Russia’s chief priority as it looks for an opportunity to save face after a month-long stream of setbacks in its invasion.
If the Moscow government was serious about its attempts to de-escalate, “they should send them home,” Kirby said of the troops. “But that’s not what they’re doing, at least not yet.”Small groups of Russian troops near the northern city of Chernihiv and northeastern city of Sumy also have begun heading north, away from those cities, Kirby said. Nevertheless, he added, the Russian military continues to conduct airstrikes in Kyiv.
One option, Kofman surmised, would be to load troops and equipment on trains in Belarus and move them through friendly territory, reentering Ukraine in the Donbas.Russia is trying to capture more towns in the east, the Pentagon has said, and experts have suggested a successful campaign in that part of Ukraine could allow Moscow to claim a victory if they can grow territory held by friendly separatists.A senior U.S.
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