"Can become decisive": the degradation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation creates opportunities for the breakthrough of the Armed Forces - ISW

According to analysts, this practice can disrupt the offensive and defense operations of Russian invaders, and can also lead to rapid degradation of forces used by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation as reinforcement. "Russian lateral redemptions are likely to increase the likelihood that the Russian forces will have to retreat to prepared defensive positions without significant support in the event of a breakthrough in Ukraine," US experts say.

According to the authors of the report, the Russian Federation now does not have the significant forces that it could attract as reinforcement, while not at risk of other areas of the front. "Ukrainian counter -offensive operations have been drafted by elite Russian compounds and parts in the Bakhmut area and continue to fix them there," the analysts stated. In addition, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation transferred a considerable number of their troops to Kupyansk and Svatovo.

According to experts, even if Ukraine ceases to carry out counter -offensive actions in the area, the occupiers will take some time to take the forces for lateral release without opening the front areas for the attack. At the same time, analysts noted that the Ukrainian side still has reserves, which gives the opportunity to rotate units. ISW believes that Ukrainian forces are likely to maintain the combat potential required to continue the depletion of the Russian forces.

"Thus, further degradation of Russian defense forces creates opportunities for any Ukrainian breakthrough, which can be decisive,"-summed up in ISW ​​that according to media reports of August 11, the forces of defense of Ukraine returned to the tactics that were used At the beginning of a full -scale invasion to break through Russian defense.