The Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing for a new wave of Russian offensive in the Kupyansko-Limansky direction.
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According to the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar, the Russians are completing reserves for the offensive in the Kupyansko-Limansky direction from the troops that were being restored from the newly formed units and soldiers transferred from Belarus.
She added that the Russians are also bringing in professional air assault brigades, “although we have destroyed most of these units in the south and east.”
Our Armed Forces are accordingly preparing to fight back. These are not only fighters – headquarters and command work there every day. You know that war is not just the use of wall-to-wall forces, it is intellectual decisions: the ability to deeply analyze the situation, calculate the enemy, mislead the enemy. And all this work is being done in order to prevent the enemy from passing either in the Kupyansky or in the Limansky direction, – Malyar said on the air of the telethon.
The Russian military has deployed a reserve army in the Lugansk region to transfer units from there to defend the southern front from the Ukrainian counteroffensive, experts at the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) say.
They start from an interview with the head of the main intelligence department of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Kirill Budanov, to journalist Natalya Moseychuk, which was published this week. Budanov also said that now the Russian army has no reserves left, and the 25th reserve army has not yet been created at all and is understaffed.
As of now, it is already understaffed, takes part in hostilities completely without exercises and went not to strengthen, which is interesting, but to replace the 41st [армії]which began its slow movement in a southerly direction – to strengthen its groups near Zaporozhye, where our offensive operations are taking place, – LIGA.net quoted Budanov as saying.
Units of the 41st Army operate without rotation, like many other advanced Russian units throughout the theater of operations, states ISW in its daily review. Experts believe that the lack of operational reserves is forcing the Russian command to carry out “horizontal redeployments” and make difficult decisions about which sectors of the front should be given priority.
Source: Racurs
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