By the end of 2023: ISW predicts the operational successes of the Armed Forces in Zaporozhye (maps)
This is agreed with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. During a visit to Ukraine, an American official confirmed that defense forces have success in a counter -offensive operation in the south. Meanwhile, the ISW website substantiates positive breakthrough prospects. The Institute appealed to the US Defense Ministry and a Ukrainian military survey. They attest to successful promotion in the south and evaluate the possibility of subsequent prompt success.
The Director of Analysis of the Intelligence Administration of the US Department of Defense Trent Mol stated that the Armed Forces are currently in battle for the second line of defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. "Their breakthrough on that second protective belt . . . In fact, quite significant," he is sure. Since the first boundaries of the Russians were overcome, the prospects are positive.
Mol also explained what risks exist at this stage is a shortage of artillery shells and the worsening of the weather. However, he summed up that there is a "realistic opportunity" to overcome the latest serious fortifications of Russians in the Zaporozhye region. He also called the likelihood of such a breakthrough-40-50%. "Restricted ammunition and worsening weather will make it" very difficult, "warned a representative of American intelligence.
The ISW analysts have clarified what is about the front of the front between robots and willow on the way to Tokmak. Beam and willow. Note on the map created by analysts, there is also a noticeably slight promotion on the western part of the Southern Front in the Kamiansky area. In front specified which fortifications of the Russians were waiting in front. He agreed that they now got to less powerful replaced fields that have overcome earlier.
Ahead - "Third Line", which consists of "command points, communication points and warehouses". It will be easier because the appointment of this line was the supply of the first two. The wild disagrees Trent Mol: he assures that the third line is enough for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to resist the Armed Forces. To break through, you will need to make efforts, but instead the breakthrough will be "crucial.
" The Armed Forces General Staff report stated that the defense forces continue the offensive in the Melitopol direction. They confirm that there are success south of the robot. It is also about some successes in the southern area of the Bakhmut direction: the fighters have displaced the invaders from positions and are strengthened on the new borders.