It will be 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine on the 3rd (local time).
Contrary to the expectation that the war would be over with a speedy move, it turned out to be a long-running war that lasted well over three months.
The Guardian, a British daily, analyzed on the 31st that Russia’s fighting style would be a slow but persistent attack that ravages an area and advances.
In fact, the Russian army has recently maintained a long front of 482 km in eastern Ukraine and is particularly concentrating on the attack on Severodonetsk, a strategic point.
This area is an important area through which the Ukrainian army’s main supply route passes.
It is different from Russia’s tactics, which had been extensively invaded across Ukraine at the beginning of the war. It is a long-term warfare system that concentrates troops in a specific area rather than speed warfare and conducts a continuous offensive of quantities.
To this end, Russia is rebuilding railways and bridges to facilitate the movement of troops and equipment from the already occupied Kupyansk in eastern Ukraine. Also, in southern Kherson, fortifications for defense are being carried out, and supply routes are being consolidated.
Of course, the counterattack of the Ukrainian army is also strong. Russia is holding back Severodonetsk, where it has concentrated its forces, and the second city, Kharkiv, has been recaptured.
It also launched a counterattack in the Russian-occupied southern Kherson.
If Ukraine recaptures Kherson, it can control the southern region and its main coastline.
Australian retired general and modern warfare researcher Mick Ryan tweeted: “Russia and Ukraine have lost hundreds and possibly thousands of soldiers and equipment, but neither are weary.” A large amount of military aid is flowing in,” he wrote.
“Neither side has shown the ability to deliver a decisive blow to the other,” he said.
Meanwhile, a high-ranking Russian ruling party official insisted that Russia-controlled Donbas (Luhansk Oblast and Donetsk Oblast) in eastern Ukraine and Kherson and Zaporiza provinces in the southeast would be incorporated into Russia.
Andrei Turchak, secretary-general of the General Assembly of the ruling United Russia Party, and vice-chairman of the Senate, said in an interview with the Rianovosti news agency today.
Regarding the possibility of Kherson’s incorporation into Russia, which is now completely controlled by the Russian army, he said, “The decision has to be made by the people (the region),” he said. “There is no doubt that this region will become part of Russia. I want stability.” He said he had no doubts regarding the Lugansk Oblast, Donetsk Oblast and Zaporiza Oblast in Donbass.
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