Difficult weather conditions in the Black Sea and southern Ukraine affected the course of military operations at the front.
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The storm in the Black Sea forced the Russian command to return all its naval ships and launch vehicles to their home bases. However, the threat of mines in the Black Sea will increase for both military and civilian vessels in the coming days because powerful winds have torn apart the boom nets and scattered the minefields. Russian mines are now drifting throughout the northwestern Black Sea. This is stated in a new report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The weather also damaged railway lines in coastal areas. This could create logistical problems for invaders in occupied Crimea and southern Ukraine.
However, the weather in Ukraine did not stop ground attacks on the front, but made them slower. Blizzards worsened visibility and complicated aerial reconnaissance and artillery adjustment in the Kherson direction, but the Ukrainian Defense Forces were able to take advantage of this and gained a foothold on the left bank of the Dnieper.
According to Colonel Alexander Shtupun, speaker of the Tauride Group of Ukrainian Forces, the enemy has reduced the use of artillery by one and a half times and the use of drones by six times due to bad weather. However, significant activity of Russian aviation is constantly observed in the Avdeevsky direction.
ISW notes that Ukraine and Russia will rely more on infantry-led ground attacks in the absence of aerial reconnaissance and artillery correction capabilities.
Let us recall that on November 27, the American Institute for the Study of War stated that Russian troops confirmed their advance to the northwest and southeast of Avdeevka on November 26.
Source: Racurs
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