The defeat of the Liman cauldron will have serious consequences for the Russian group in the north of the Donetsk region and in the west of the Luhansk region and, as a result, Ukrainian troops could threaten Russian positions along the western border of the Luhansk region in the Sector. Severodonetsk-Lisychansk, explains the think tank.
ISW further stresses that the Russian Defense Ministry is not reacting to the current Russian losses in Liman and is not preparing for a rout in this sector of the front, which should further reduce the already weak Russian morale.
Furthermore, future Ukrainian earnings in the critical areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions “could create another wedge between Russian nationalists and the military leadership, as well as between Russian soldiers and their commanders,” predicts ISW.
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