Three-fold advantage over the Armed Forces of Ukraine: how many forces did the Russians bring to Sumy region?

Russia has deployed 50,000 soldiers to the Sumy region, which is three times the number of Ukrainian troops in this direction.

This was reported in The Wall Street Journal.

It is noted that the regional center of Sumy region has become a new target of the offensive, the occupiers are currently 20 kilometers from the city.

It is known that the occupiers look for weak points along the entire front line and then attack with full force. This forces Ukrainian commanders to play “whack a mole” by sending elite units into problem areas.

In early June 2025, Ukraine sent elite units to help stabilize the situation in Sumy region. Since then, the Russian advance has been halted, and Ukraine has regained some territory. However, almost everywhere on the front, the SOU are outnumbered by the Russians on this front.

“Their numbers are a big problem for us, although not enough to defeat us,” said Kappa, commander of the Chimera unit.

He added that the Russians can afford to lose up to 400 people in the Sumy direction.

“For half a year, while Ukraine held territory in Russia’s Kursk region, soldiers fighting there believed the military would prepare strong defensive positions on the Ukrainian side of the border. Instead, after a chaotic and costly retreat from Kursk, they found outdated trenches unprotected from drones. In some cases, soldiers are now digging trenches in their positions under drone fire,” The Wall Street Journal notes.

Earlier, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrsky, stated that Ukrainian troops had stopped the advance of the invaders in the Sumy region . The enemy’s “summer offensive” from Russian territory had stalled.

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