The Armed Forces can retreat from Avdiivka and Bakhmut - isw

Analysts are convinced that in the near future the Armed Forces will start operating in several sections of the front, and the occupiers will lose not only the initiative on the battlefield, but also the territory one by one. However, ISW also allows the withdrawal of defense forces from Avdiivka and Bakhmut. Russian invaders will try to achieve some minor success in the near future before it loses its initiative on the battlefield.

Analysts from the American Institute of War Study (ISW) on Monday, March 20. In their view, Russian troops are trying to increase the pace of their actions in some sections of the battlefield in order to achieve minor success before the initiative again moves into the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, it is about Bakhmut, who continue to storm, as well as Avdiivka, where attempts to surround the city have increased.

"As of March 20, Russian troops probably received additional positions in the southwest and north of Bakhmut, as well as in the northwest of Bakhmut between Bogdanivka and Chrome," the message reads. Analysts also point out that increased activity on the battlefield has caused them to be fruit and significantly increased, and the attempt to distract the Armed Forces of Ukraine was not successful.

"It remains probable that the Russian offensive can make Ukraine retreat from Bakhmut and/or Avdiivka, although it does not seem likely as possible," experts say. We will remind, on March 20 in ISW ​​explained why President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin came to Mariupol. According to analysts, in Moscow they wanted to demonstrate that the head of state was involved in the Great War and is not afraid to go to the war zone.