Russia’s summer impetus in Ukraine is aimed at three fronts, but is facing strict resistance

While Russia on the night of drones and rocket attacks against Ukraine have hit record levels, on the spot its military claimed territorial profits.

Last month, the Russian forces seized 556 square km (215 square miles), its largest land picking up this year, according to the open source Deepstate monitoring website in Ukraine. This is an area four times larger than Liverpool and almost the same size as the city of Chicago.

The purpose of Russia is to interrupt the delivery routes used by Ukrainian troops to the east and to create a buffer zone within the northern borders of Ukraine.

But its progress remains relatively slow. This pace will take more than 70 years to capture the whole country.

Most Russian attacks are concentrated in three areas:

• The region of sums bordering Russia to the northeast
• The two eastern cities of Pokrovsk and Kostantinava
• Third Front, west of Pokrovsk

Russian troops managed to push about 10-12 km (6-7.5 miles) deep in the area of ​​sums, but this advance stopped at the face of fierce resistance.

Vladimir Putin says he wants to create a buffer zone to protect the Russian territory after the Ukrainian forces took over the Kursk territory last summer. The Russian powers were eventually kicked out with the help of North Korean troops and ammunition.

The Russians then switched to Ukraine, but quickly sink into battles over small border villages that continue to change their hands today. Without great reinforcements, it is unlikely that Russian troops can be pressed far here.

Another northern region that reports that the army of Russia has crossed the border of the state is Harkiev. Last week, they claimed to take a border village, but without making significant resources, it is unlikely to make additional profits.

Military observers believe that these operations are aimed at forcing Ukraine to spread their forces too thin throughout the first line with a length of 1200 km to distract the troops from key areas.

One of these first -line areas is Pokrovsk, a strategic center in Eastern Ukraine, which Moscow has been trying to capture for more than two years. According to the head of the Army Gen. of Ukraine Alexander Syirsi, Russia has concentrated about 111,000 troops in the area.

The Russians rarely start massive attacks, says Lt Artem Pribylnov of the 155th Ukraine Brigade, located near Pokrovsk.

Any major movement of troops and armored vehicles will be quickly discovered and destroyed by drones. Instead, says Lt Pribylnov, the Russians rely on small groups of infantry troops that mercilessly attack Ukrainian positions, sometimes on motor bicycles, but more often on foot.

This type of “creeping insult”, as some call it, is aimed at exhausting resources of Kiev, while the endless waves of Russian soldiers ultimately not push Ukrainians out of their position. But the price they pay is frighteningly high.

The General Staff of Ukraine puts the victims of Russia on more than 1,000 soldiers a day. The BBC cannot check these figures independently, but they show that the heavy losses Russia suffers.

The purpose of Russia in Eastern Ukraine seems to be to create a “boiler”, a semi -casoric decoration of Ukrainians around Pokrovsk and Kostantinavka and then forced them to withdraw.

Russian troops are now trying to enter the area between these two cities to create a “bridge head where they can attack Pokrovsk or Kostantinava,” says Major Victor Trehubov, a spokesman for Eastern Ukraine.

Breakthrough here is not considered probable. Russia’s progress between Kostantinicka and Pokrovsk is already slowing down, and the worse attempts to press from other countries have stopped.

The largest Russian profit in recent weeks has been west of Pokrovsk, in an area indicated by Ukrainian military as Novopavlivske direction, Named in the village of Novopavlinka, which has become a defense center after the retreat to the west of Ukrainian troops.

Military observer Kostantine Mashovets says that Moscow’s operation there was the most intimidating to Ukraine, as his defense measures “collapsed”, allowing the Russians to progress up to 10 km per day.

Their move was so fast that the Russian military bloggers even claimed that their troops had reached the neighboring region of Denpropetrovsk for the first time since the beginning of the invasion.

Ukrainian military officials deny these allegations, stating that a small group of Russian soldiers entered a village in the Denipropetrovsk region to take pictures with a Russian flag, but were quickly “eliminated”. However, the Institute for the Study of War shows that Russian troops are still working there.

Major Trehubov claims that this area offers a little strategic advantage to Russian troops and their attack was motivated instead of political goals.

The advancement of the DNIPROPETROVSK region can work well for propaganda messages, but will require more resources that are currently bound in Pokrovsk and kostyantynivka.

Ukrainians, however, face increasing pressure on the front lines, as Russian troops are constantly trying to break their supplies with drone attacks.

“Those routes we used two months ago, we can’t use them now, not during the day, even at night,” employee Victor Piasetsky’s employee of the 93rd Ukraine Brigade, located near Kostantine, told the BBC on the phone.

As a result, it has become extremely complicated and slow to deliver food and ammunition, evacuate the wounded and rotating troops on the front line.

Russian drones such as gerbera can fly in hundreds of kilometers to reach places that until recently are considered relatively safe.

Their goal is not only to delete the defense lines, but also to “terrorize the population,” says SGT Pyasetskiy staff. “They systematically destroy civil buildings. They want to undermine morals and weaken our faith in Ukraine’s ability to stop the Russians.”

As he spoke, he was interrupted by the roar of drones. Shortly thereafter, there were reports of strikes on an apartment block. It was later confirmed that Sergeant’s employees survived.