If Russia breaks through Yunakivka, FPV drones may devastate Sumy — Ukrainian major

He said this on Espreso TV.

"Regarding the Sumy direction, I want to say that today, if I’m not mistaken, the Russians used a glide bomb (KAB) on Sumy - they’re already reaching the city with these air-dropped bombs. If the Russians break through Yunakivka and take a few high points, they’ll start tearing apart Sumy with FPV drones. They’re able to launch assaults in small groups because they’ve already amassed 60,000 troops there while we were, so to speak, sitting statically on the Kursk front. They’ve built up their manpower and are now advancing. Of course, you can’t get heavy equipment through forests and swamps, so their goal is to reach open operational terrain, where they could then start pulling in equipment," commented the retired Ukrainian Armed Forces major.

According to him, we have very good F-16 jets, but we would need air-to-air missiles to take down Russian aircraft - or at least missiles with a longer range, but we aren't being given those.

“And if the Russians are reaching us with glide bombs, we’ve seen what happens to populated areas hit by those bombs. So we need longer-range air-to-air missiles for our jets to counter them. We also need to establish second and third lines of defense, build access routes to them taking the terrain into account, and cover them with nets - because the Russians have a massive number of FPV drones connected via fiber optics,” Ihor Lapin noted.

• On May 26, the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov, reported that 4 border settlements in the Sumy region were under Russian control.
• On May 27, the Russian occupiers launched an air strike on the Okhtyrka community in the Sumy region. As a result, three family members were injured.