Russian 🇷🇺 armed forces started their first strategically important maneuver of 2025.
After months of preparation, Russian army is trying to cut the Pokrovsk-Kostiantynivka frontline, breaching the Donbass 🇺🇦 front in the middle.
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After months of struggle west of Pokrovsk and in Toretsk, russian army switched its offensive potential to the Ocheretyne frontline.
After a striking progress of nearly 10km 3 weeks ago, they are now pushing north, farther than the Pokrovsk-Kostiantynivka highway.
Russian army captured in a few days Myrolyubivka, Malynivka, Nova Poltavka, Novoolenivka and Oleksandropil. This fast advance allowed them to get through an important fortified line on the Pokrovsk-Kostiantynivka highway.
« It is normal that russian 🇷🇺 forces are not making big progress, they focus on destroying the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 army »
I disagree with this narrative. The Russian strategy is neither attrition nor an attempt at a breakthrough; it is a mixture of both.
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When failing to explain why an army isn't advancing, we try to look away, talking about a battle of attrition where the objective would be to destroy the opponent.
However, since 3 years, Russia has failed to destroy the ukrainian army.
To explain the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2023, many have argued that the goal would be to undermine the Russian army by destroying its assets before attempting a breakthrough.
Of course it was false, the offensive just failed with russian army doing attrition