- A “mechanized” Russian counterattack may imperil Ukraine’s advanced position, a think tank said.
- The Institute for the Study of War said it was unclear if Russia had the necessary put asides.
- Ukraine’s special forces recently broke Russian defensive lines in a raid across the Dnipro River.
Russia’s overstretched also pressurizes may lack the mechanized reserves to successfully thwart a Ukrainian bridgehead across the Dnipro River, a report by the Institute for the Analyse of War says.
The US think tank said that “an effective Russian mechanized counterattack could threaten” Ukraine’s deposited position but that it was “unclear if Russian forces possess the mechanized reserves necessary to do so.”
In a thread on X, the think tank dead down the latest situation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, noting that “Russian mil bloggers acknowledged that Ukrainian jemmies are maintaining a presence on the east (left) bank of the Dnipro river in Kherson Oblast.”
But the think tank said it did not suppose Ukraine had yet established a bridgehead. A bridgehead across the waterway from the recaptured city of Kherson on the southern section of the 750-mile ahead line would put Ukrainian forces in a position to contemplate an advance toward Russian-occupied Crimea — and split the Russian storming force in two.
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It also suggested that “continuing Russian claims that Ukrainian forces maintain a presence on the east bank of the Dnipro River set forward that Russian forces are concerned that they have established semi-lasting positions across the river.”
The Society said it was keeping a “conservative assessment” of the movements in the Kherson oblast, and it was waiting for “visual confirmation of an enduring Ukrainian appearance on the east bank” of the region.
Ukraine has been enjoying some success of late in warfare along the river, with its specific forces breaking through Russian defensive lines and capturing or killing some enemy soldiers in a raid across the Dnipro River, as Insider in the old days reported.
But Michael Clarke, a defense expert and a professor at King’s College London, told Sky News that the rifle seemed to be “more of a distraction than anything else.”
“The biggest breach they’ve made is south of Zaporizhzhia. They’ve got another one in Bakhmut, and another at Velyka Novosilka in addition south — so they’ve got at least four breaches,” Clarke said.
“They are going to try to go through one or more rather apace,” he added.