DECRYPTION – Moscow continues to achieve tactical successes, while the kyiv army faces the exhaustion of its forces.
The worst-case scenario did not occur in 2024. Military analysts breathed a sigh of relief that the Ukrainian army had managed to contain or slow down Russia’s continued and brutal push on the Donbass front. The forehead « did not implode »Carnegie Institute expert Michael Kofman commented recently on X. « Russian forces failed to turn their material advantage into a significant breakthrough »he added. « Stabilization of the front line is essential to buy time and force Moscow to reassess the situation »he assured. It was a few days before Moscow claimed, on Monday, the capture of Kurakhové, south of Pokrovsk.
The Russian army is said to be only a few kilometers from this mining town in eastern Ukraine, one of the last bastions, fortified in 2015 by the Ukrainians. « A new Ukrainian resistance point has fallen
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