In his opinion, none of the parties has the initiative now.
Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense and intelligence Serhiy Rakhmanin explained that the coming weeks will determine the further nature of the war against Ukraine, it will make it clear how long it will last. He said this during an interview with “RBK Ukraine”.
“During the coming weeks, until the end of the summer, it should be determined what the nature of the war will be in the future: whether one of the sides will seize the initiative and develop it, or we will talk about a protracted war that may last even for years.This will become clear in the fall. Firstly, everyone expects sufficiently active actions of Ukraine in the south, it will depend on the extent to which Ukraine deprives the Russians of warehouses, and whether it will be able to cut off Russian groups in the Kherson region from communications along the Dnieper River,” he said.
< p>As for the Russians, an important role will be played by how quickly they will collect the reserve that is being prepared today in Mulino.
“They are going to form the 3rd reserve army corps by mid-August, according to the plan, it is about 15 thousand servicemen. Now equipment, artillery systems, etc. are being brought there from all over the Russian Federation from storage bases. It depends on how quickly they manage to form this corps and how much whether this reinforcement will be effective in the combat zone will largely depend on the nature of the war going forward. In September, we will be convinced of this for the final time, – Rakhmanin added, noting that none of the sides has the initiative today. – The Russians are advancing, although they have been advancing slowly lately, they actually captured the Luhansk region, advanced in Donetsk region, there are positional battles, when settlements in the south and in the Kharkiv region change hands. But today it cannot be said that one of the parties has the initiative. And there is no direction of the main strike either.”
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Head of the Ministry of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov hopes that already this year the Ukrainians will start a successful counter-offensive campaign, which will lead to changes on the front in our favor.
Why did the aggressor fail the first stage of the invasion and could not succeed in the second? What tasks should our army solve in the third stage in order to oust the Russians from Ukraine? What could be the consequences of the truce to which Putin will incline Ukraine? You will find the answers to these questions and the forecast for the coming months in the article by Major General Serhii Savchenko “Are you waiting for a powerful fire preparation and counteroffensive? This will not happen. Everything has already begun.” from self-propelled guns and mortars As a result of the shelling, more than 20 hectares of wheat were destroyed. The Ukrainian Armed Forces neutralized two reconnaissance groups of the occupiers in the Luhansk region The occupiers are trying to develop an offensive on Bakhmut. Firing in Mykolaiv: private houses and a medical facility were damaged Three people were injured. Irreversible losses of the Russian army in manpower already reach more than 41 thousand – General Staff Over the course of a day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated 40 units of enemy military equipment and about 200 servicemen. Due to their vulnerability in the Zaporozhye direction, the Russians are transferring forces there from Donbas – British intelligence In addition, attempts at tactical offensives on the Bakhmut axis continue.
