While Ukraine pushes its main attack on the southern front, Russia is conducting its own offensive to sap Kyiv's strength and attention.
The Russian and Ukrainian armies are engaged in a cat-and-mouse game along the 800-mile front as each side tries to force the other into deploying valuable reserves and therefore opening new gaps in the crystallizing contact line.
"In the annals of world military history, this has happened quite often when you have stalemates along an extended border," Mark Voyger told. He is a former special adviser for Russian and Eurasian affairs to then-commander of U.S. Army EuropeAs Ukraine seeks an elusive breakthrough in southern Zaporizhzhia and southeastern Donetsk oblasts, Russian forces are on the offensive in.
There, Ukraine has been forced to deploy valuable reserves, despite its ongoing efforts to achieve a breakthrough in the south. Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesperson for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,"Immediate clear orders were given to build a defense in depth," Cherevaty said during a telethon as quoted by Ukrainian online newspaper Strana.ua."Our firing positions were toughened, certain methodological recommendations were provided, reserves were transferred.
A member of a Ukrainian SPG-9 recoilless gun crew fires towards Russian positions near the occupied Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on August 14, 2023 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Both sides are on the offensive at different points along the 800-mile front.
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