Unlike previous phases of the war, Russia probably achieved fairly effective coordination between the two groups of troops.
A new report by the British Ministry of Defense states that that after the Russian occupiers have captured almost the entire Luhansk region, they will shift their efforts to Donetsk. The agency's summary on its Twitter page says that the Russians will probably raze the cities to the ground with the help of artillery in this case as well.
In general, it was noted that characteristic of the battle for Donbas – the slow pace of the offensive and the massive use of artillery.
“The fighting in the Donetsk region will almost certainly continue in the same way”, – the intelligence believes.
There it was noted that the fact that the Rashists relatively quickly took over Lysychansk gives they have the opportunity to declare almost complete control over the Luhansk region and progress in achieving the political goal, which is, as the Kremlin declared, “the liberation of Donbas”.
“Unlike in previous phases of the war, Russia has probably achieved fairly effective coordination between at least two troop groups: the Central Group, probably under the command of Colonel General Alexander Lapin, and the Southern Group, probably under the command of the newly appointed General Serhii Surovikin.” – it says in the summary.
As for the defenders, they are assigned in good condition to the positions for which they were planned.And in the Severodonetsk-Lysychansk area, the Russians could fire at them from three sides.
“There is a real possibility that Ukrainian forces will now be able to retreat to a more defensively straightened front line,” the British Ministry of Defense notes.
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