In Late May Or Early June, The Real Military Conflict Between Russia And Ukraine Starts- By Harsha Sankar (May 2023)

The real war between Russia and Ukraine has yet to start. The last 14.5 months have been preparations for the long awaited counter-offensives only. That will take place this month.

Each side will employ three to four hundred thousand troops initially. If needed Russia will tap into its reserves and send an additional three to four hundred thousand highly trained troops to try to bring this war to a close. If US led NATO does not send its own troops, this will probably be the case because Ukraine will run out of both highly trained soldiers and ammunition.

Look at the map. Russia currently occupies the oblasts(states) of Luhansk and most of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. All should pay attention to the Dnieper River. Russia may very well try to take the other oblasts east of that river such as half of Dnipropetrovsk and all of Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv. This would essentially divide the Ukraine into two.

However with these five oblasts, they could incorporate Kharkiv into the Russian Federation. The others may be allowed to form their own nation of four million people. It could be called Fedorova or East Ukraine and it could serve as a buffer nation between the downsized Ukraine and the augmented Russian nation.

If the war rages on and if Russia decides to use its troops stationed in Transnistria located next to Moldova, Mykolaiv and Odessa Oblasts could be incorporated into the Russian Federation just like Kharkiv due to its large Russian-Speaking population.