The Russian Federation is preparing a large -scale offensive: ISW analysts have named the main purpose (map)
According to analysts, localized attacks on coal and settlements of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions are probably aimed at dispersing Ukrainian troops and creating conditions for Russia's offensive in the Luhansk region. Experts also say that Russian troops are trying to disperse the Ukrainian group on the Svatovo-Kremenne line to allow the Russian Federation to conquer the estuary of Donetsk region.
In addition, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is focused on the capture of positions in the west of the Luhansk region and northeast of Donetsk region. If the Russian military succeeds, they will clear the way to the administrative borders of the regions. But the occupiers have now focused on fighting in the Bakhmut district. There they try to have an offensive operation.
We will remind, on January 28 the Armed Forces stated that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are preparing for the offensive in the southern direction of the front. The representative of OK "South" Natalia Humeniuk reported that the Ukrainian military is conducting permanent fire work, destroying the warehouses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and not allowing them to create a place of dislocation.