The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation captured the positions near the robot who took the Armed Forces during the summer counter -offensive - ISW

"Russian troops recently advanced in the West of the Zaporozhye region and repelled the positions that Ukrainian troops seized during the counter -offensive in the summer of 2023," the report said. Analysts noted that this could have happened after Ukrainian fighters went to "more suitable for defense" positions near the robot for the winter. According to geolocation of December 14 and 27, Russians recently advanced west of Willow.

According to the commander of the operational-strategic group of Tavriya troops, Alexander Tarnavsky, the leadership of the Russian Federation, in addition to the capture of Avdiivka, has an even more ambitious purpose-to occupy all Donetsk and Lugansk regions and repel the territory lost in the Zaporozhye region during Ukrainian counter-offensive.

The ISW emphasized that Ukraine's reflection in August 2023 was tactically significant, as it could allow the Armed Forces to start acting past the most dense Russian mine fields and further Russian defense layers, but analysts do not consider the return of these positions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "especially important".

In addition, the recent successes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Zaporizhzhia region confirmed the opinion of ISW that "the current position war in Ukraine is not a stable deaf angle", because the current balance can change in any way because of the decisions taken in the West or in Russia, And limited achievements of the Russian Federation can become significant if the event stops providing military assistance to Ukraine.

We will remind, on December 27 DeepState analysts reported that the occupiers increased the presence of artillery and increased the activity of cabins near the robot. The enemy dropped the chemicals into the position of one of the Ukrainian brigades. On December 22, Alexander Kovalenko, a military observer of the Information Resistance Group, said that the Armed Forces had built fortifications on the Kupyansk-Liman Front. Minnie fields were placed in front of each line.