“Active defense”: Ukraine targets Russia’s supply routes. Observers have suggested that the Kremlin wants to stabilize and expand its partial occupation of Luhansk and Donetsk.
The goal is “the elimination of the military threat” - liberating Ukraine at the same time, a Russian military analyst told Newsweek. “They simply have no other options to carry out grueling, grueling offensives after two years of hard fighting,” Pavel Luzin said.