The leadership of Russia is probably preparing to create new forces to strengthen the attack on Ukraine in the fall and winter. This is stated in the report of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
According to experts, which sounded the day before the statement of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin that the purpose of the “special military operation” is to eliminate the “anti -Russian enclave” emerging in Ukraine, which poses a threat to the Russian state, indicates that the Russian president did not refuse From their intentions to capture the whole country.
“The statement is supposedly aimed at creating information conditions for calling for the further efforts of Russia and creating forces in the fall and winter of this year,” American analysts say.
At the same time, experts consider the capture of Donbass until September 15. The institute notes that after the capture of Lisichansk, the army of the Russian Federation achieved insignificant success around Avdeevka, after which the promotion of Russians stalled.