A pincer maneuverwith attacks from north to southfrom Kharkiv to Mykolaivto weaken an opponent now exhausted after almost three years of war. There Russiain constant superiority of men and equipment, does not slow down the offensive Ukraine continuing to gain ground on the main front, the Donbass. Even at the cost of causing environmental disasters, according to local authorities, who reported damage to one dam on the Vovcha river after a raid, with dozens of villages at risk of flooding. Winter is upon us and for Kiev it will be even more difficult, but we are already preparing for the worst. The assessment is that Russian forces have “stored missiles at airports in preparation for massive attacks.”
In two months Donald Trump will return to the White House, but has already taken action to at least freeze the war, even at the cost of heavy territorial concessions of Ukraine. Kiev is trying to regain ground before it is too late, but the situation continues to worsen, both within the country and in the Russian areas occupied in August. Just the offensive in the Kurskthe bet of Zelensky to obtain a bargaining chip, it is proving to be a boomerang, according to what the Spanish newspaper reconstructed El Pais speaking with some Ukrainian soldiers. In the border region the general staff has deployed its forces better and well equipped brigadesbut despite this the troops of Fly they gradually took back part of the oblast. At the same time, to defend the Donbass the weakest departments remained, among other things exhausted by a stay on the front line that goes up to 25 days. The result, a constant retreat.
In the Donetsk in particular, the recent fall of Vulhedar gave Russia a significant advantage, because its high position allows it to start the drones to attack deep behind Ukrainian lines. In recent days the greatest progress has been recorded in this areaPutin’s Armyheading north, and the target now appears to be the city of Kurakhovewhich has a large thermo-electric power plant in operation. A strategic objective, with frost on the doorstep. According to the Ukrainian authorities, the local reservoir itself was the target of a raid that damaged a dam, raising the level of the river. river and threatening the surrounding villages. Already last year a huge Soviet-era dam in Kherson had been partially destroyed, flooding dozens of villages on the banks of the Dnieperwith the two sides exchanging accusations over the paternity of the raids.
At the beginning of November the commander of the armed forces of Kiev, Oleksandr Syrskyisaid Ukraine was facing “one of the most powerful” enemy offensives since the war began. And Sunday the New York Times revealed that well 50 thousand Russians and North Koreans were deployed for the Kursk. That game over, Fly could return to focus on Donbassand more. By now its advance also threatens what remains of the oblast of Zaporizhzhia in the hands of the Ukrainians and Dnipropetrovsk.