The Russians can capture Kupyansk and Kurakhove before the end of the year – Stupak

The expert stressed that for Putin “Kurshchyna is still closer”, but warned of a threat to the two Ukrainian cities.

Russian troops will not capture any regional center of Ukraine until the end of 2024. However, with a high probability, the enemy may occupy two smaller cities in the east.

Ivan Stupak, a military expert and ex-employee of the SBU, expressed this opinion in an interview with Oboz.ua.

The expert answered the question whether it would be a nice New Year's gift for the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, to capture one of the regional centers of Ukraine. Stupak appreciated this danger.

“It can be anything, but Kurshchyna is still closer to him. No matter how much he flaunts that, as they say, “we will liberate later, Donetsk is more important for us”, the very next day after he said this, in In Russia, they began to collect soldiers in order to stop…