According to US military experts, the Russian armed forces, due to previous achievements in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, can now choose a further direction of attack.
West of the recently captured Avdijivka, Moscow has several tactical options to expand its offensive, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in Washington wrote Monday night. The Russian military command is said to have a choice – either push further west to the industrial city of Pokrovsk, or move north to reinforce the attack on Chasiv Yar.
Russia has been at war in Ukraine for more than two years. With the supply of ammunition and weapons stuck, as well as a growing shortage of troops, the defenders have been forced to put up a fierce defense in the last six months.
After losing Avdjivka, which has turned into a fortress, to the west of the regional capital, Donetsk, which has been under control since 2014. controlled by pro-Russian forces, movement at the front began. If in the previous months the territorial gains of the Russians reached several hundred meters, since February the Russian units advanced 15 km and occupied a string of villages.
Ukrainians are also under pressure north of the Bakhmut region. According to Kiev, the Russian military leadership wants to announce the conquest of Chasiv Yar on May 9, when Moscow will commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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