Improved conditions will allow Russian armoured vehicles to roll into key positions as US aid for Ukraine stalls in congress.
Russian troops are ramping up the pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces ahead of a bid to seize more land this spring and summer as muddy fields dry out, allowing tanks, armoured vehicles and other heavy equipment to roll into key positions.
Ukrainian servicemen of the 65th brigade prepare their tank for the next operation to defend their positions Last summer’s counter-offensive by Ukraine was doomed when advancing Ukrainian units got trapped on vast Russian minefields and massacred by artillery and drones. The Russians have no reason to make that same mistake.
“We should have been digging trenches through the and it would have stemmed Russian advances. Now everything is exposed, making it very dangerous.” Russia illegally annexed Donetsk and three other regions in 2022, and the Kremlin sees fully controlling that region as a priority. After securing another term in a preordained election in March, President Vladimir Putin vowed to carve out a “sanitary zone” to protect Russia’s border regions from Ukrainian shelling and incursions.
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