Russia’s summer push in Ukraine targets three fronts but faces stern resistance

While Russia’s drones and missile attacks on Ukraine have reached record levels, its army on the ground claims regional gains.

Last month, Russian forces acquired 556 square kilometers (215 square miles), which are their largest land this year, according to the open source Deepstate monitoring site in Ukraine. This is an area of ​​four times the size of Liverpool and almost the same size as Chicago.

Russia’s goal is to cut off the display methods used by the Ukrainian forces in the east, and to create a buffer zone within the borders of northern Ukraine.

But its progress is still relatively slow. At this pace, it will take more than 70 years to seize the entire country.

Most Russian attacks focused on three areas:

• Sumi region, which borders Russia in the northeast
• The two eastern cities of Boucrovsk and Kostyantynivka
• Third front, West Boucrovsk

Russian forces managed to pay about 10-12 km (6-7.5 miles) deep in the Sumi region, but this progress has stopped facing severe resistance.

Vladimir Putin says he wants to create a buffer zone to protect Russian territory, after the Ukrainian forces acquired an area of ​​the Corsak region last summer. The Russian forces ultimately took them out, with the help of North Korean forces and ammunition.

Then the Russians crossed to Ukraine, but they soon became involved in the fighting over the small border villages, which continue to change hands until today. Without large reinforcements, the Russian forces are unlikely to be able to push much here.

Another northern region where the Russian army was said to cross the borders of the state is Kharkif. Last week, they claimed to seize a border village, but without committing large resources unlikely to make other gains.

Military observers believe that these operations aim to force Ukraine to deploy its forces very thin along the 1200 -km front line, so that they transfer forces from the main areas.

One of these front lines is Pokrovsk, a strategic center in eastern Ukraine, which Moscow is trying to capture for more than two years. According to General Olexander Serski in the Ukraine Army, Russia has focused about 111,000 soldiers in that region.

Lt Artem Pribylnov of the Ukraine Brigade, the fifteenth place, stationed near Boucrovsk, says the Russians rarely unleash massive attacks.

Any large movement of armored forces and vehicles will be discovered quickly and destroyed by drones. Instead, Lt Priblynov says, the Russians depend on small groups of infantry forces who attack Ukrainian sites unabated, and sometimes on motor bicycles but often walk.

This type of “creeping attack”, as some call it, aims to exhaust the resources of Kiev in order to pay the endless waves of Russian soldiers in the end of the Ukrainian from their positions. But the price they pay is frighteningly high.

The Ukrainian General Staff puts Russia’s victims in more than 1,000 soldiers per day. BBC cannot independently verify these numbers, but it indicates that severe losses are suffering from Russia.

It seems that Russia’s goal in eastern Ukraine is to create a “boiler”, semi -adjacent to the Ukrainians around Boucrovsk and Kostyantynivka and then force them to retreat.

The Russian forces are now trying to wander in the region between these two cities to create “a bridge bridge where they can attack Boucrovsk or Costianinvka.”

A penetration here is not possible. Russia offers Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk already, and previous attempts to pay from other aspects have stopped.

It was the largest Russian gain in recent weeks west of Boucrovsk, in an area referred to by the Ukrainian army in Bassem Novopavlivske direction, It was called the name of the village of Novopafvica, which became the center of defense after the West retreated for the Ukrainian forces.

Military observer Kostyantyn Mashoves says that the Moscow operation was a greater threat to Ukraine as defense measures “collapsed”, allowing the Russians to advance to 10 kilometers a day.

Their step was so fast that Russian military bloggers claimed that their forces had arrived in the neighboring Dniproptrovsk area for the first time since the beginning of the invasion.

Ukrainian military officials deny these allegations, saying that a small group of Russian soldiers entered a village in the Dniproptrovsk area to take pictures with the Russian flag but was “eliminated” quickly. However, the Institute of War Study indicates that Russian forces are still working there.

Maj Trehubov argues that this field provides a small strategic advantage for Russian forces, and instead, the attack on political targets was.

Progress may work more in the Dniproptrovsk region well for advertising messages, but it requires larger resources currently linked to Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka.

However, Ukrainians face increasing pressure on the front lines, as Russian forces are constantly trying to cut their supply lines with drones.

“These methods that we used two months ago, we cannot use now, not during the day, not even at night,” said employees Sergeant Victor Biescky of Brigade 93 in Ukraine stationed near Kostyantynivka to BBC over the phone.

As a result, it has become very complicated and slow to serve food and ammunition, and to evacuate and rotate the wounded forces on the confrontation line.

Russian drones such as GERBERA can fly for hundreds of kilometers to reach places that are considered to be relatively safe.

Sergeant Sergeant Bayasitsky says that their goal is not only to erase the defense lines but also “intimidation of the population.” “They systematically destroy civil buildings. They want to undermine the morale and weaken our belief in Ukraine’s ability to stop the Russians.”

During his speech, he interrupted him with drones. Shortly after that there were reports of a residential mass injury. This was later confirmed that the sergeant had survived.