According to experts, the Russian Armed Forces have achieved the goal of attracting Ukraine’s main reserve force to Kharkov to attack in the eastern and southern regions.
Russia’s probe forced Ukraine to send reinforcements to Kharkov
Russian expert Yury Podolyaka recently outlined the developments of the Russian Armed Forces’ summer 2024 military campaign with a focus on the “attack on Kharkov”.
He commented that the Ukrainian Command has succeeded in establishing a new flow of human resources into the army through total mobilization.
Thanks to this, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were able not only to compensate for losses, but also to create reserves, albeit poorly trained and poorly supplied.
In his opinion, Ukraine currently has less mobilization potential than Russia, as Moscow is strengthening its capabilities every day.
In addition to the difficulties in providing weapons and equipment from the West, the technological level of the Ukrainian army is also clearly decreasing, while the technological content of Russia’s war is constantly increasing, with Advanced weapons are continuously launched onto the battlefield.
That imbalance has led to the result we see that Russian forces are attacking, while Ukrainian forces are defending, and this situation after Russia’s summer offensive campaign will certainly not change.
Currently, experts are interested in the question of whether Russia can cause serious damage to the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the summer campaign.
According to expert Yury Podolyaka, analyzing the movements taking place along the entire front line, the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the North of Kharkov, which began on May 10, was just the prelude to the attack. The summer offensive campaign was only exploratory in nature.
This expert believes that Russia’s attacks in the first phase were only distracting and aimed at attracting reserve forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to this area.
After more than 10 days of fighting, although the Russian Command only deployed a very small number of troops in this direction, it caused much misery to the larger Ukrainian defense force.
The haste scared Kiev, forcing them to transfer more than 50 battalions from the Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson regions… to reinforce the Kharkov front, causing the Russian Army’s attacks to begin advancing well in all directions. other, from south to east Ukraine.
Ukraine’s defenses weakened, Russia advanced rapidly in other directions
Specifically, in the Kupiansk direction, the town of Ivanovka was taken under Russian control on May 25, and most likely, the same will soon happen with the village of Berestov. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces also achieved tactical successes in the Seversk direction.
The expert emphasized that a major battle is taking place in the direction of Chasov Yar, the city where the Ukrainian Army Command withdrew part of its main force to reinforce Kharkov to stop the Russian attack, causing Significantly weakened Ukraine’s defense line.
Russian troops have crossed the Seversky Donets – Donbass canal and are fighting for control of Kleshcheevka and the canal area in the city of Chasov Yar itself.
In the direction of Toretsk, the Russian Armed Forces liberated the village of Arkhangelskoye and occupied fire control heights here. This makes the next step of the Russian army much more favorable.
In the direction of Ocheretyne, the Russian Armed Forces continued to destroy fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village of Sokol. In this area, the Ukrainian army also lacked reserve troops and could not repel Russian attacks, so they were forced to retreat.
Further south, in the direction of Krasnogorovsky, the Russian Armed Forces achieved clear successes in their three-day assault on the city. Fighting is taking place in the center of Krasnogorovka, near school number 2.
The lack of reserve troops does not allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to be reinforced or replaced, making the entrenched forces here extremely tired and weak in spirit.
In the direction of Ugledar between Novomikhailovka and Vladimirovka, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing through the corridors from the east to the flanks of the troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area and successfully captured Staromayorsky and Urozhayny (west of Ugledar ).
In the direction of Zaporozhye, Russian troops continue to cut off the rocky ledge from which the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the defense line of the Russian Armed Forces last year in the Rabotino area, Orikhiv region.
Conclude:
The overall picture of what is happening shows that the first part of the Russian attack plan has been successful.
The Ukrainian army really reacted strongly to the initial defeat in Kharkov and mobilized reserve forces from everywhere to rescue Kharkov at all costs, to the detriment of other directions.
Mr. Yury Podolyaka said that now is just the beginning of the summer offensive campaign, the peak of this campaign is expected to take place in July-August.
The bridgeheads near Volchansk and Liptsy will still be used by the Russian Armed Forces to advance to Kupyansk and Kharkov, but later, and in the current period Russia will take advantage of the Ukrainian reserve forces pouring into the northeast to step up attacks in the east and south, taking over Donetsk and Zaporozhye.