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Mar 19 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
NEW: #Russian forces targeted #Ukraine w/ 16 Shahed-136 drones overnight on March 17.

#Wagner financier Yevgeny #Prigohzin is likely trying to set informational conditions to explain Wagner's culmination around #Bakhmut. isw.pub/UkrWar031823

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2/ #Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova reiterated on March 18 that the #Kremlin has not abandoned its maximalist goals in #Ukraine. isw.pub/UkrWar031823
3/ Russian President Vladimir #Putin continued his campaign against anti-war dissent and the misappropriation of military assets within #Russia. isw.pub/UkrWar031823
4/ BBC and #Russian opposition news outlet Mediazona reported on March 17 that Russian forces (excluding Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic militiamen) have suffered a confirmed 17,375 deaths, a conservative estimate of 35K total deaths, and 157K casualties.
5/ Russian regional authorities may be severing their connections with #Prigozhin. Prigozhin claimed that the Goryachiy Klyuch, Krasnodar Krai authorities reneged on a prior agreement to bury deceased #Wagner Group mercenaries in the town. isw.pub/UkrWar031823

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Mar 20
#Russian President Vladimir #Putin visited occupied #Mariupol on March 19, likely to project the image of invulnerability and to continue efforts to portray himself as an involved wartime leader. isw.pub/UkrWar031923
2/ #Putin also likely meant his visit to be a response to the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for his involvement in war crimes connected to the deportation of #Ukrainian children, at least 1,000 of whom #Russian officials deported from #Mariupol alone.
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#Ukrainian forces likely conducted a localized counterattack southwest of #Bakhmut amid growing #Russian discussion about a potential Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Bakhmut area. isw.pub/UkrWar031923 ImageImage
2/ Geolocated footage published on March 19 indicates that #Ukrainian forces conducted a successful counterattack southwest of Ivanivske (6km west of #Bakhmut) and pushed Russian forces further away from the T0504 highway in the area. Image
3/ #Ukrainian Eastern Group of Forces Spokesperson Colonel Serhiy Cherevaty reported that #Russian forces conducted 25 attacks in the Bakhmut area on March 19, but Russian forces likely only secured marginal gains.
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Mar 19
More on #Bakhmut:

The #Ukrainian General Staff specified that Ukrainian forces repelled #Russian assaults in the northern part of #Bakhmut, likely suggesting that Russian forces are concentrating offensive operations on the northern part of the city. isw.pub/UkrWar031823
2/ #Russian milbloggers claimed that #Wagner Group fighters captured unspecified industrial facilities in the AZOM complex in northern #Bakhmut and have cleared most of the complex of #Ukrainian forces.
3/ ISW has not observed any visual confirmation that Russian forces have advanced into the territory of the AZOM complex.
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Mar 19
Eastern #Ukraine: #Donetsk Oblast:

#Russian forces continued offensive operations in and around #Bakhmut and on the outskirts of Donetsk City on March 18. (1/4) isw.pub/UkrWar031823
2/ The #Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled #Russian offensive operations near #Bakhmut, within 11km NW of Bakhmut near Orikhovo-Vasylikva and Hryhorivka, and within 6km SW of Bakhmut near Ivanivske and Klishchiivka.
3/ Russian milbloggers claimed that Russian forces also conducted assaults near Khromove (2km west of #Bakhmut) and Bohdanivka (6km northwest of Bakhmut).
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Mar 18
ISW initially assessed on March 16 that #Prigozhin might have fabricated the alleged plot to support these informational campaigns, but ISW failed to observe that a Russian milblogger had posted rumors about the alleged plot on March 13. isw.pub/UkrWar031723
2/ #Prigozhin’s press service was involved in a fabrication of some kind given the Nezavisimaya Gazeta denial, but Prigozhin does not appear to have fabricated the rumor itself.
3/ #Prigozhin’s press service may have received a fabricated press request or may have fabricated the press request itself.

Regardless of whoever fabricated the press request, Prigozhin chose to give prominence to the rumored plot. isw.pub/UkrWar031723
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Mar 18
Western #Luhansk/Eastern #Kharkiv Oblast

#Russian forces conducted limited ground attacks along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line on March 17 but did not secure any confirmed territorial gains. Isw.pub/UkrWar031723
2/ The #Ukrainian General Staff reported that #Russian forces conducted unsuccessful offensive actions near Hryanykivka (17km northeast of #Svatove), #Kreminna, Kuzmyne (3km southwest of Kreminna), Verkhnokamianske (7km east of #Siversk), and Spirne (11km southeast of Spirne).
3/ A prominent #Russian milblogger claimed that #Russian forces drove #Ukrainian forces near Hryanykivka across the Oskil River to the western (right) bank.
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