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RUSSIA'S SUMMER OFFENSIVE IS 'FIZZLING OUT'
>Moscow’s campaign to break into more Ukrainian territory falters just weeks after starting
>“The capacity to start something new and distinct really isn’t there for the Russians right now. The summer offensive is just going to be the continuation of what they’ve been doing in spring,” Angelica Evans, a Russia analyst at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), told The Telegraph.
>“The Russian offensive has broadly stalled … They have the advantage in manpower and drones but their infantry is very poorly trained, if at all,” a senior Ukrainian NCO, who is fighting in the Kupiansk direction in Donetsk, told The Telegraph.
>while Sumy is a symbolic and strategic target, it is only one part of the summer offensive. Ukrainian officials have said Russia is also trying to breach the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region and continue its push to secure the entire Donbas in the east.
>“To take Kramatorsk they would need an additional 100,000 men,” the Ukrainian NCO said. “They needed 40,000 to take Avdiivka, 70,000 to take Bakhmut, and that included some very well-trained and capable Wagner mercenaries.”
>“The Russians haven’t taken a city for sometime. They celebrate like Soviet-era wins over these small towns and villages, which don’t have any real strategic value,” said Prof Michael Clarke, a security and defence analyst.
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>This assault is going very very fast
hehe picrel aged like milk
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