ASPI Senior Analyst Dr Malcolm Davis says the transfer into Ukraine from Russia as a “peacekeeping” operation is an “preliminary stage of a significant invasion”.
It comes after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to conduct a “peacekeeping” mission in two breakaway areas in japanese Ukraine following his recognition of the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk.
“The following step can be to broaden their invasion into the Ukrainian held areas of the Donbas, and that’s the place we’re prone to see intense combating get away between Ukrainian and Russian forces,” Dr Davis advised Sky Information Australia.
“After which the important thing query after that’s: do they then on the identical time launch an advance from the north, from Belarus in the direction of Kyiv and secondly within the south.”
Dr Davis mentioned the expectation and indicators are the Russians will undertake a “huge invasion of Ukraine, taking substantial chunks of territory, together with the capital, Kyiv”. ASPI Senior Analyst Dr Malcolm Davis says the transfer into Ukraine from Russia as a “peacekeeping” operation is an “preliminary stage of a significant invasion”.
It comes after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to conduct a “peacekeeping” mission in two breakaway areas in japanese Ukraine following his recognition of the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk.
“The following step can be to broaden their invasion into the Ukrainian held areas of the Donbas, and that’s the place we’re prone to see intense combating get away between Ukrainian and Russian forces,” Dr Davis advised Sky Information Australia.
“After which the important thing query after that’s: do they then on the identical time launch an advance from the north, from Belarus in the direction of Kyiv and secondly within the south.”
Dr Davis mentioned the expectation and indicators are the Russians will undertake a “huge invasion of Ukraine, taking substantial chunks of territory, together with the capital, Kyiv”.