Inofficiell PSA till civila Ukrainare som bor nära fronten, något stort är på gång.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/34063
Telegram* channel @Dva_Majors wrote a note to the civilians living in AFU controlled area :
To the people of Ukraine,
Everyone understands that during the past month, during which the Russian Armed Forces seized the initiative, there was preparation for an offensive. Open sources mention that the possible directions could be Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhya.*
People living in these territories can themselves see signs of how the AFU is preparing these cities and regions for defense. The terrain is being mined, fortifications are being erected, and military columns and buses with mercenaries are coming.
The Ukrainian command has good intelligence from American satellites, processed by experienced think tanks.
But the Kiev regime is not officially announcing the evacuation of the population. Because fortifications are being built in the cities, civilians will once again become a human shield. The evacuation in Kupyansk was announced after the Russian Armed Forces approached the city and were around 7–10 km away.
Ukrainian civilians should leave these cities by all means. The Russian Armed Forces will no longer conduct a police operation. There will be no more such nonsense as there was in Mariupol, when the position of an enemy sniper/machine gunner could not be demolished because there "might be civilians" in a half-destroyed five-story building.
And after all the horrifying videos of torture and execution of our soldiers, and the joyful reaction to them by a large number of Ukrainians, the attitude of soldiers and officers toward "civilians" has changed somewhat.*
In addition, counterintelligence activities have shown that agents of the Ukrainian secret services are being infiltrated into the refugee population, helping the AFU target our units with artillery.
If you do not have the physical ability to leave, equip basements, stock up on water, canned food, medicines, and hygiene products. After entering a populated area controlled by the Russian Armed Forces, do not congregate in places where humanitarian aid is handed out. The Ukrainian armed forces also shelled such places in Mariupol (Sharyi has clips with stories from civilians) and now in the Kupyansk direction.
Do not get caught by the active service members. Neither the AFU nor the Russian Armed Forces. Mercenaries are already staging provocations dressed up in Russian uniforms in Liman and Chasov Yar.
Don't hope for the "luck of the draw." Prepare yourselves. Canned food will always come in handy.