Russia's Summer Offensive Failure
Russia will not launch a new, coordinated offensive along the hundreds of miles of front lines in eastern Ukraine this summer, according to Kyiv authorities and Western analysis, while Moscow says it has seized control of another village in the Donetsk region.
"A repeat of a broad offensive along the entire front line, like in February 2022, is out of the question for now," Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency, told Newsweek.
When Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin quickly expanded its reach from parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that were under separatist control to swathes of north and eastern Ukraine.
Moscow has also held Crimea, a peninsula to the south of mainland Ukraine, since 2014.
Ukraine retook territory, including in the northeastern Kharkiv region, in a lightning counteroffensive in fall 2022.
Yet Russia has slowly, but steadily, gained territory in eastern Ukraine, claiming the Donetsk city of Avdiivka in February 2024 and moving west in the months since.
However, in late July, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a U.S.-based think tank, said Russian forces were "unlikely to mount a distinct new summer offensive operation due to material and manpower constraints."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-summer-offensive-eastern-ukraine-donetsk-1934298
