Ukrainian President Zelenskyy secures new military aid from France and Germany as his troops appear to deal Russia new blows on the ground and in the air.
Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery near Bakhmut on Friday. Kyiv's troops appear to have pushed Russian forces back on the flanks of the battered city in the past week.Sunday that Ukrainian forces had made “massive attempts to break through the defenses of our troops,” to the north and south of Bakhmut, but said none of them were successful. It also said that two of its commanders had died repelling Ukrainian attacks in a village near Bakhmut.
“It seems likely that we are in the preliminary, or ‘shaping’, stages of Ukraine’s long-awaited ‘spring’ offensive. In that sense, Ukraine has indeed begun its attack: but what we are seeing are the initial stages designed to create uncertainty,” said Christopher Tuck, an expert in conflict and security at King’s College London.
“Russian forces have created extensive fixed defenses all along the front line, but they cannot man all of those defenses adequately because the front is so long,” he said. “Therefore, a key part of Ukraine’s battle plan will be to try and deceive Russian forces as to the likely point of attack,” he added. “Whilst it is not impossible that Donbas might be that intended point of attack, it is equally likely that Ukrainian operations around Bakhmut are intended to focus Russian efforts there in preparation for a Ukrainian offensive elsewhere.”
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