The U.S. think tank assessed how Moscow’s best forces had failed to hold territory in Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Russia’s most accomplished forces are becoming « increasingly degraded » in the face of gains by Ukrainian troops, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The U.S. think tank said on Monday that Ukrainian forces had made substantial gains around Lyman and in northern Kherson Oblast over the previous 24 hours, where Russian groupings had been among Vladimir Putin’s best conventional fighting forces.
Geolocated footage backs Russian claims that Ukrainian troops are pushing east of Lyman from where Russian soldiers retreated last Saturday and may have broken through the Luhansk Oblast border, towards Kreminna.
The ISW said the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, along with the 144th Motorized Rifle Division had faced « apparent failures to hold territory against major Ukrainian counter-offensive actions.
