Russia may resume military offensive in Ukraine's Donbas after operational pause: Report

As war between Russia and Ukraine continues to intensify, Institute for Study of War (ISW), a US-based think-tank, has released a report stating that Russia is likely to resume Donbas operations after an operational pause. According to ISW, a series of ground assaults rthwest of Slovyansk along T1302 Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway, souast of Bakhmut, and southwest of Donetsk City indicate that Russian troops are attempting to once again resume offensive operations in Donbas region, though se assaults have been small-scale and largely unsuccessful, it said.

statement furr said that Russia will likely continue and expand attacks in next three days. Russians might inste alternate briefer pauses with strengning attacks over a number of days before moving into a full-scale offensive operation, report claimed. It furr stated that a 10-day pause is t sufficient for a force like Russia to fully regenerate its offensive operations.

"Russian forces carried out a series of limited ground assaults rthwest of Slovyansk, souast of Siversk, along T1302 Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway, souast of Bakhmut, and southwest of Donetsk City," report claimed ding that assaults suggest that Russian forces are attempting to resume ir offensive operations in Donbas.

As per ISW report, assaults are still small-scale and were largely unsuccessful. "If operational pause is truly over, Russians will likely continue and expand such assaults in coming 72 hours. Russians might inste alternate briefer pauses with strengning attacks over a number of days before moving into a full-scale offensive operation," report stated.

"A 10-day-long operational pause is insufficient to fully regenerate Russian forces for large-scale offensive operations. Russian military seems to feel continuous pressure to resume and continue offensive operations before it can reasonably have rebuilt sufficient combat power to achieve decisive effects at a reasonable cost to itself, however. resuming Russian offensive may refore fluctuate or even stall for some time," it ded.

Russia-Ukraine war: Over 38,000 Russian troops killed, says Kyiv

In its latest update, Ukrainian Armed Forces on Saturday anunced that y have mand to eliminate a total of 38,140 Russian soldiers since beginning of war.

In dition to this, a total of 220 planes, 1677 tanks, 188 helicopters, 3874 APV, 15 boats/cutters, 846 artillery systems, and 687 UAVs among or war equipment were destroyed by Ukrainian troops, Kyiv claimed.

(Im: AP/Representative)