According to Beals, Ukraine is now attacking several sections of the front line, the sole purpose of which is to search for weak points in the Russian defense lines. According to an expert who spoke to Sky News, by occupying smaller settlements, the battlefield is being prepared for a larger offensive to begin, but the real offensive has yet to begin.
Ukraine is now testing only the lines of defense on the front line […]. Small villages are cleared so that they cannot be attacked from the rear […]. But if they find a weak point, the mass of tanks will kick in and cause real damage to the Russian forces.
Bells said.
For some reason, Belz completely ignored the events of the past week in Orihiv in his analysis. As is known: Ukraine then sent the entire 47th Mechanized Brigade to the Russian lines of defense, and 15% of the entire Ukrainian M2A2 fleet and more than 10% of the Leopard 2A6 fleet were lost in battle. It doesn’t really look like a probing attack, even if we accept that this is really happening in the Makarevka and Bahmut district.
The analyst may be right that we haven’t really seen some Ukrainian capabilities, such as Challenger tanks or Strykers, on the front line yet, but it can probably be reasonably assumed that the leadership in Kiev will not send everything to the Russian defense lines at the same time.
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