Re: Spuma zilelor ... jurnal de lectura !!!
- Russian offensive operations in eastern Ukraine have likely exhausted the
limited momentum they gained at the end of July and are likely culminating.
- The Russian military has shown a continual inability to translate small
tactical gains into operational successes, a failing that will likely prevent
Russia from making significant territorial advances in the coming months
barring major changes on the battlefield.
- Ukrainian military intelligence reports that Russia and Belarus have reached
an “urgent” agreement for Belarus to repair damaged Russian aviation
equipment for re-use in Ukraine. This agreement could be part of a Russian
effort to use the looser sanctions regime on Belarus to circumvent sectoral
sanctions on Russia.
- Russian forces attempted several unsuccessful ground assaults southwest
and southeast of Izyum.
- Russian forces launched a ground attack southeast of Siversk and northeast
and south of Bakhmut.
- Russian forces made limited gains west of Donetsk City but did not conduct
any ground assaults on the Donetsk-Zaporizhia Oblast administrative border.
- Russian forces attempted unsuccessful ground assaults southwest of
Donetsk City and continued attacking settlements northwest and southwest
of Avdiivka.
- Russian forces conducted several assaults on the Kherson-Mykolaiv frontline
and made partial advances east of Mykolaiv City.
- Russian forces are likely not training new recruits in discipline, creating an
entitled force engaging in disorderly conduct in Russia and illegal conduct in
Ukraine.
- Russian occupation authorities intensified filtration measures and abductions
in occupied territories ahead of Ukraine’s Independence Day on August 24.
(isw)
