Russian forces and means are far from the same as they were at the beginning of the military campaign.
On southbound Putin’s troops “stand on a fork”, since their forces and means are far from the same as they were at the beginning of the military campaign
About it declared Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the OP, in an interview with publicist Yulia Latynina.
They are [оккупанты] are now in a position where wherever they twitch, they will fail. If they stay in place, they will fail, if they try to move again, they will fail, he noted.
Arestovich stressed that over the six months of a full-scale war, we saw a reduction in the Kremlin’s plans for Ukraine. From capturing all of Ukraine to trying to hold the south. And he added that without the capture of Kyiv and the Left Bank, “this campaign is lost for the Russian Federation.”
“This is a strategic defeat that has already been formalized,” he stressed.
In the Russian Federation, they are confused because of the strikes on the Crimea, “referendums” are postponed
About it said in a report by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The invaders are changing plans because annexation makes it harder to imagine any negotiated settlement to the war on any terms that Ukraine or the West could accept.
Analysts also say that Russian troops have made little progress northwest of the city of Donetsk and are continuing to push northwest from their current footholds on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk.
Recall that Ukrainian Major General Dmitry Marchenko predicted that the hot phase of the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine may end by the end of this year.
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