Front line in the Ukraine war: military experts attest to Putin's "fatal mistake"
Created: 09/12/2022Updated: 09/12/2022 11:13 am
By: Franziska Schwarz
In the focus of the regular ISW analysis of the Ukraine war: Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin © TASS Host Photo Agency/Sergei Bobylyov/AFP
The counter-offensive brings losses to Russia - and that is also due to mistakes made by Putin's military.
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Kyiv/Washington - The think tank "Institute for the Study of War" (ISW) in Washington has been publishing regular analyzes of combat events since the Russian invasion of Ukraine - the latest does not sound good for Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.
Military experts on Ukraine counter-offensive: Putin makes “fatal mistake”
The reason for this assessment is Ukraine's successes in its counter-offensive.
"Putin risks a common but deadly mistake by waiting too long to send reinforcements to the Luhansk front,"
Focus Online
quoted the paper as
saying - temporarily unavailable.)
The ISW military experts even see a "time-and-space dilemma" for Putin, because the Russian army should actually withdraw troops from other battlefields in order to set up a new line of defense in the areas occupied by them - but the ISW sees no signs of this .
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The course of the front in the Ukraine war: Experts see a shift
The day before, the ISW reported that President Volodymyr Zelensky's Ukrainian soldiers had regained more territory within five days than the Russian troops had occupied in total since April.
"The liberation of Izyum will be Ukraine's greatest military success since the victory in the Battle of Kyiv in March," it said in its analysis of the situation.
As a result, Russia's planned advance on the Donbass from the north failed, the experts said.
(frs with dpa material)
