Russia's Kharkiv offensive – what is the plan? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Buffalox@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia's plan is, and it is not self-evident that it is a smart use of resources. In this video I discuss whether we might be seeing a return to the fragmented command structures that Russia had in the beginning of the war.

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[-] sushibowl@feddit.nl 4 points 7 months ago

The Russian army also generally doesn't seem to have the training and capability to launch an effective large scale combined arms assault in a single region. That's probably a must to break through, otherwise concentrating forces and attacking into artillery will only lead to extremely heavy casualties.