Russia is changing strategy: from advance to defense

British intelligence in a brief brief report on the war commented on the statements of businessman Evgeny Prigozhin about the construction of defensive structures – the so -called “Wagner line” in the Lugansk region.

“If the scale of the plans corresponds to Prigozhin’s statements, these works are probably aimed at integrating the Seversky Donets River into the defense line, partly following the distinction of 2015. The plan gives reason to assume that Russia invests significant funds in the preparation of defensive lines for the existing The front line is probably in order to stop the quick Ukrainian counterattack, ”the report says.

We are talking about a chain of recently built anti-tank barriers and trenches, which starts from the Russian border east of Lugansk and then goes to the north-west to Kremennaya, where it sharply turns south.

This line separates the conditional northern part of the Luhansk region from the South. Earlier on social networks, experts and military bloggers suggested that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can strive to cut off and release the north of the Luhansk region.