“After the failures near Kyiv and the impossibility of overthrowing the central government of Ukraine, putin is already changing the main operational directions — the south and the east. There is reason to believe that he is considering a ‘Korean’ scenario for Ukraine. That is, he will try to impose a dividing line between the unoccupied and occupied regions of our country. In fact, it is an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine. After all, he is definitely not able to swallow the whole state,” Brigadier General Kyrylo Budanov, Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine said.

He said he was convinced that the issue of establishing a land corridor to Crimea is still relevant for the russian fascist regime. But the main problem for implementing this plan is the unbreakable city of Mariupol.

“The occupiers will try to unite the occupied territories into a single quasi-state entity that will be opposed to independent Ukraine. We are already seeing attempts to create ‘parallel’ authorities in the occupied territories and force people to give up the hryvnia. They may want to bargain about that at the international level. But the resistance and rallies of our citizens in the occupied territories, counteroffensives by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and gradual liberation of territories significantly complicate the implementation of enemy plan. In addition, the season of total Ukrainian guerrilla safari is beginning soon. Then there will be one relevant scenario left for the Russians – how to survive,” Kyrylo Budanov concluded.