Ukraine Orders Evacuations Amid Russian Troops Build-Up Near Border

Newsweek ^ | 5/22/2025 | Brendan Cole

[marcusmaximus]

Vladimir Putin's forces are massing next to Russia's border with Ukraine's Sumy oblast, it has been reported, following evacuations from the region and a threat that Moscow has identified further territorial targets in its full-scale invasion.

Sumy governor Oleh Hryhorov said thousands had been evacuated from the region on Ukraine's northeast border and next to the Kharkiv oblast, according to the Kyiv Independent. On the other side of the frontier Russian troops numbers are said to be increasing.

It comes Putin is trying to justify the renewal of Russian plans to seize Sumy City—16 miles from the border—and illegally annex the whole of Sumy Oblast, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

However, Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko told Newsweek that the city of Sumy would be too big for Russian forces to capture.

[tennmountainman]

Z-Man is waving his booty at Maxipad.

[marcusmaximus]

Did your Putin just shoot down a civilian airliner over Tver?

[NorseViking]

There was not a single case of its interception before the countermeasure.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

All I know is the statement from the yikes I posted…