Ukraine controls most of the 600 km and Russia is on the defensive. But Russia still owns a fifth of Ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine – In jungle, rural and urban battles, Ukraine’s military defied all odds, forcing Russia to retreat several times during the nine-month war.
Despite its successes and even the tens of thousands of soldiers killed on both sides, Ukraine is only halfway there: its army is now recapturing about 55 percent of the territory it held from Russia since the February invasion.
Ukraine is under attack along its 600-mile front line. The Russians are on the defensive to the south and east, and are continuing to attack in a direction east of Bakhmut.
Ukraine’s success brought the war to a turning point. In relation to the invasion, you can organize the second part of the war, decide whether to expand access to Russian territory or winter, as scientists say about the military, what Russia wants to do. .
Ukraine faces many obstacles: the presence of so many Russian troops in confined spaces means that future battles will be fought on much more defensive and challenging terrain.
Ukraine is now fighting boats in the reed swamps and submerged islands of the lower Dnipro. The encounter takes place in several trenches in the glacial plains south of the Zaporizhia region; and took part in bloody fighting on the Svatov-Karimana Line in the pine forests of northeastern Ukraine.
Following Russia’s withdrawal from Kherson this month, President Vladimir Zelensky made an unannounced visit to the city, the only Russian-held regional capital. Winston Churchill raised the Ukrainian flag on a government building and gave his most famous speech in 1942 after Britain won World War II.
Lord Churchill announced the end of the three-year “First” war. Mr. Zielinski is trying to change that story. This is the beginning of the end of war,” he said. But Russia occupies about a fifth of Ukraine.
Renewed line: Following Ukraine’s liberation of Kherson and surrounding areas earlier this month, the Cold War has now begun with an unstable climate and a weak and confused Russian military.
State of war: Evacuation plans: The Ukrainian government is preparing to help evacuate residents of the southern cities of Kherson and Mykolaiv, where power and heating failures have raised fears of a humanitarian influx ahead of winter.
- The race to rebuild: Ukraine’s efforts to stabilize the country’s fragmented power and free the country from the seemingly never-ending task of defining parts of the country represent a larger effort beyond the war.
- Visual analysis: Videos circulating on social media have sparked controversy over whether Ukrainian soldiers committed war crimes or acted in self-defense when they tried to capture a group of Russian soldiers who later I died. Here we know.
- Canal attack in Crimea: When Ukraine bombed the Kerch Canal in October, it cut off vital supply lines to Russia and overland Russian air traffic. Experts provide an update on the damage to the matrix and how Ukraine removed it.
“Seth G. Jones,” director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote of poor training, lack of logistics, corruption, even drug addiction. , thought the tank was located in Vienna.
The Ukrainian advance has prompted the deployment of more Russian troops to southern Ukraine to quell artillery and mortar fire, and Kyiv has said it will fire back.
But the new geometry also helped Ruthenia, whose retreat from Kherson this month was its third setback in the conflict — but it moved its troops to a more defensible position on the east bank of the Dnieper.
To compensate for the damage, Russia sent new weapons to Ukraine. Ten thousand Russian troops were sent north-east from the west bank of the Kherson River to strengthen the fortifications, launch a new offensive in the Donetsk region, and destroy the Moscow army on the land bridge from Russia to the Crimea. Very important to the Kremlin.
While military analysts often note that the winter storm — the first blizzard to blow into the trenches this weekend — may be the slowest sign of Ukraine’s displeasure, harming a prepared Russian military is certainly a good thing. do not have. But the war began in winter the following February, and both armies in Eurasia were emerging from the experiences of the Winter War.
Different wars, on infrastructure
As Russian forces defend themselves in the countryside to the south and east, Moscow is fighting a similar war with tactics: missile and drone strikes to destroy infrastructure inside Ukraine, trying to demoralize them. I, which is destroying the quality of life of thousands of citizens. ,
Last week, Russia launched its largest wartime bombing campaign yet, targeting power plants, small businesses, natural gas plants and water supplies — a deadly campaign rarely seen before. It remains the same.
Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Col. Yuriy Akhnat said Monday that the military has “free resources” so that combat troops are not directly affected by the country’s power problems. And according to him, the strike action is like an excuse for the soldiers whose families support their work and strengthen their fighting spirit.
However, General Ahnat admitted that the water strikes were part of Ukraine’s air defense. He said Ukraine fires an average of two missiles for every Russian one, hoping to increase the chances of success, and now needs more missiles and spy planes. In addition, Russia uses relatively cheap drones to attack Ukraine’s air defenses.
General Ahnat said the rocket attacks this weekend were aimed at bringing Kyiv to the negotiating table.
He said that what kind of conditions they want to impose, they want us to negotiate.
The Kremlin agreed. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters last week that attacks on infrastructure were a “result” of Ukraine’s desire to “engage in dialogue.”
Ukraine is collapsing deep in the south.
Despite Russian threats, officials in Kyiv say they are not negotiating but instead hope to use the momentum of the fall offensive to deter Russian forces.
The Ukrainian military said last week that Russian troops had retreated 10 to 24 kilometers from the eastern bank of the Dnipro River near Kherson to get out of reach of agitated Ukrainians.
Currently, Ukraine’s long-range precision missiles can now penetrate deep into Russian-controlled areas and cover almost everything north of Crimea. Thanks to their changing resolve, the Russians now mirror the trenches north of their annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
The Russians are also building new layers of defense outside the southern city of Melitopol, which Russia captured in the early days of the war. It lies at the junction of a major highway to the south, making it perhaps the most strategic. The city is building. Russian control
Military analysts believe that Ukraine wants to bypass Melitopol and split Russian forces east and south.
Bloodshed in Donbass
The rugged plains, coal mining and agricultural towns of eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region are a contested area where Russia’s failure is trying to turn the tide.
According to General Oleksii Khromov, a member of the General Staff of Ukraine, the Eastern Front is the country’s frontline. He said that between November 12 and 17, there were more than 500 military clashes with the Ukrainian army in the region.
The Donbass is divided into two battlegrounds: one is the Gulf Line, which runs through pine forests along an important supply route known as the Svyatovo-Kremina Line, between the region’s two largest cities; It is in front. The town and surrounding villages came under artillery fire.
Bakhmut’s tactical value is limited, but this fight is great for a number of reasons. For Russia, their victory could open the way to other important Donbas cities. Additionally, Bakhmut is believed to be a trophy of the Russian private military contract company Wagner, which sought to capture it to compensate for losses elsewhere and to recover political money in Russia from the company’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
For its part, Ukraine was reluctant to give up a city without a fight – months of fighting were witnessed near Bakhmut and Severodnitsk, which were eventually captured by the Russians, and Mykolaiv in the south, which is still held by Ukraine. .
Ash said in surprise
“On the front, the Ukrainians had success after success, and the Russians failed every time,” said the US chief of staff general. Mark A Millie last week.
But General Milli also noted that the Russians still control a significant part of Ukraine and suggested that despite their success, Kyiv is more open to negotiations.
“This is no small piece of land,” General Milley said of the still-uncleared area. “And that won’t happen in the coming weeks unless the Russian military is completely wiped out, which is unlikely.”
But the idea of exchanging land for peace has not yet taken off in Kyiv. The Zelenskyi government does not believe that a negotiated solution will be sustainable.
“Many people are asking how the war can end,” Zielinski said Saturday during a video call on the Halifax stage at the International Security Forum.
But I would ask you to ask the most obvious question: How can a true and just peace be restored? Now he said that the ceasefire will not mean the end of the war. He would have time to regroup before attacking Moscow again.
Unethical concessions only create more blood, he said.
He said that what kind of conditions they want to impose, they want us to negotiate.
The Kremlin agreed. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters last week that attacks on infrastructure were a “result” of Ukraine’s desire to “engage in dialogue.”
