50 Russians reportedly died in the failed attempt to restore momentum to Russian assaults in southern Donetsk.
It took months of bloody fighting, but in December, Russian forces occupied the ruins of Kurakhove, a fortress town anchoring Ukrainian positions on the southern edge of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Battered and exhausted—and desperately low on armored vehicles—the Russian field armies couldn’t extend their control more than a few more miles to the west.
Four months later, they’ve finally mustered the reserves for a fresh push. “We … expect Russian offensive actions to expand further in the south in the coming months,” Tatarigami, the founder of the Ukrainian Frontelligence Intelligence analysis group, warned on Thursday.
In fact, those actions kicked off days earlier. On Tuesday, a large Russian force attacked at several points simultaneously north of Kurakhove and south of Sribne.
