2024-08-03 08:43:39
Over the past week, Russia has increased its focus on eastern Ukraine, where it has mounted a series of attacks aimed at breaching defense lines using combat vehicles and infantry. According to analysts, the occupiers undertake this type of raids only in specific areas of the front, which may indicate that the army is running out of resources. “Moscow will now force its soldiers to reach the bottom,” assess American analysts.
Russian footage shows a Russian BM-21 Grad rocket launcher hitting Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk region (1/8/2024). | Video: Viral Press
Russian forces have carried out several attacks in the Donetsk region in recent days. During one of them near the city of Kostiantynivka, the Kremlin-led army, according to analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War, tried to break through the Ukrainian defense by deploying ten tanks, almost fifty armored vehicles and ten motorcycles in one specific point of the battle line.
“These localized strikes probably reveal the peak of Russia’s current capabilities. It is unlikely that the Kremlin will prepare a new large-scale combat operation in the summer due to material and personnel limitations,” the experts assessed in Wednesday’s summary.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia has failed to conduct multiple large-scale offensive operations simultaneously. Instead, the Kremlin’s military appears to be leaning towards single, intensive attacks targeting specific areas. The pressure on the Ukrainian army and the intensity of the fighting are thus different and constantly changing. “The Russian military may believe that mechanized attacks limited to specific locations will be enough to achieve Moscow’s goals for this summer. On the other hand, it may also be the maximum that Russian forces can manage now,” analysts said.
According to experts, the leadership of the Russian army may force the troops to advance on the line as far as possible until the soldiers are completely exhausted. “They will probably do so regardless of the losses the military will suffer in the process,” the Business Insider website interprets the analysis.
According to the server, Russia planned to organize a wider attack on the northeast of the Kharkiv region, where at the beginning of May it sought to weaken the Ukrainian army in order to prepare the ground for more intense fighting in the summer. However, Kiev managed to defend the area.
According to United States officials, key supplies of American military aid helped the occupied country in particular. According to White House spokesman John Kirby, the fear that Russia could achieve a strategic breakthrough on the battlefield while waiting for the approval of the April aid package was justified.
“Ukrainian defense lines were strengthened and could continue to fight bravely and repel Russian attacks,” commented Kirby. According to him, Russia has suffered extraordinary losses in the past few months and sacrificed thousands of Russian soldiers for very little gain.
However, analysts of the Institute for the Study of War point out that Russian strikes are still very costly for Ukraine. According to experts, Moscow is conducting a so-called war of attrition against Ukraine, the aim of which is to exhaust the army of the occupied country, both in terms of personnel and material.
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