Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment - Riley Bailey, Angelica Evans, Christina Harward, Grace Mappes, George Barros, and Fredrick W. Kagan

The Kremlin has previously appealed to the mythos of the Great Patriotic War (Second World War) to reassure the Russian public that the Russin war effort will bring to bear overwhelming manpower and materiel for victory in Ukraine as the Soviet Union did for the Red Army against Nazi Germany.[5] Putin’s allusion to the Soviet Union’s total mobilization during the Second World War does not necessar. [...] A Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces advanced up to one kilometer in the direction of Kurakhove (west of Donetsk City), although ISW has not observed any 10 Institute for the Study of War and AEI’s Critical Threats Project 2024 and Donetsk City Battle Map Draft February 2%2C 2024.png confirmation of this claim.[45] Russian and U. [...] Russian sources stated that Russian forces advanced west of Verbove and that Ukrainian forces marginally advanced northwest of Verbove (east of Robotyne), but ISW has not observed visual confirmation of these Russian claims.[52] Ukrainian and Russian sources stated that positional engagements continued near Robotyne, Verbove, and Novofedorivka (northeast of Robotyne).[53] A Russian milblogger clai. [...] Humenyuk stated that Russian forces are losing up to 70 percent of the personnel in each assault group on the east bank of the Dnipro River but that Russian forces are able to readily replenish units by transferring personnel from the rear to the front. [...] The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) summoned the Estonian charge d’affaires in Moscow to protest Estonia’s decision to reinter the remains of 16 Soviet soldiers at the Tallinn Defense Cemetery at a different location within the cemetery in order to restore the road leading to a monument commemorating the Estonian War of Independence.[81] Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova labeled E.