25-12-2024, 07:09 PM
One of Russia’s main claims in the war is that the Donetsk Oblast should gain its independence (alongside Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea Oblasts) and secede from Ukraine.
“Putin appears to be increasingly characterizing Russian advances in terms of square kilometers instead of highlighting the seizure of particular settlements as he had previously done. Putin may have instructed the Russian military command to delay the seizure of Pokrovsk in favor of making further gains through open fields and small settlements, particularly as Russian forces advance closer to the Donetsk-Dnipropetrovsk Oblast administrative boundary,” the Institute for the Study of War added.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/r...bas-214168
“Putin appears to be increasingly characterizing Russian advances in terms of square kilometers instead of highlighting the seizure of particular settlements as he had previously done. Putin may have instructed the Russian military command to delay the seizure of Pokrovsk in favor of making further gains through open fields and small settlements, particularly as Russian forces advance closer to the Donetsk-Dnipropetrovsk Oblast administrative boundary,” the Institute for the Study of War added.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/r...bas-214168