Ukraine Russia Special Military Operation, The Chechen battalion Sheikh Mansur in Bakhmut Cam
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Date: 2023-02-25

The Chechen battalion of Sheikh Mansur showed how the defense in Bakhmut takes place, Ukraine Russia Cam Footage


Spring battles will be ‘decisive’, says Ukraine’s military intelligence chief
Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, predicted Russia’s full-scale invasion a year ago © Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters. Major General Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, has said that battles waged this spring are likely to decide the outcome of Russia’s war against his country. “From the middle to the end of spring there will be decisive battles,” Budanov said in interviews with Forbes Ukraine and Ukrainska Pravda ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He added that these battles would mark a major “turning point” in the war, which has caused tens of thousands of civilian and military casualties and the destruction of entire cities and towns. Budanov, who was the only government official in Kyiv to boldly and publicly predict Russia’s full-scale invasion, also claimed the war would end this year. “The score is 1-1, and the minute is 70,” Budanov said, using a football analogy to explain his belief that the war is nearing an end. But what kind of end remains unclear. He echoed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in saying that Ukraine would accept nothing less than the full restoration of its territorial integrity, which would mean recapturing all of the eastern and southern provinces of Ukraine occupied by Russia, including Crimea. Ukraine has said it plans to launch a major counteroffensive in the spring to liberate areas under Russian occupation. Russia’s goal, said Budanov, is to capture all of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces by March 31. Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed to have “annexed” those provinces along with the southern regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in September.
Financial Times


Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 24 February 2023
Since 2014 Russia’s strategic goal in Ukraine has highly likely been consistent: to control its neighbour. Over 2014-2021, it pursued this objective through subversion, by fomenting an undeclared war in the Donbas, and by annexing Crimea. On 24 February 2022, Russia pivoted to a new approach and launched a full-scale invasion which attempted to seize the whole country and depose its government. By April 2022, Russia realised this had failed, and focused on expanding and formalising its rule over the Donbas and the south. It has made slow and extremely costly progress. In recent weeks, Russia has likely changed its approach again. Its campaign now likely primarily seeks to degrade the Ukrainian military, rather than being focused on seizing substantial new territory. The Russian leadership is likely pursuing a long-term operation where they bank that Russia’s advantages in population and resources will eventually exhaust Ukraine.
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