Putin “suffers” Ukrainians with “suffocation strategy” – Why Russia wins lands in Donbas

It has made significant territorial gains in the eastern , with the aim of occupying the strategically important city of Pocroftsk, which plays a huge role in supporting Ukrainian military forces in Donbas. The progress of Russia’s troops on the eastern front has caused particular concern and concern in Ukraine, which also mentions an analysis by the French News Agency (AFP). In particular, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army captured 478 square kilometres of Ukrainian territory from the beginning of October, the largest territorial gains it has recorded within a month of the first weeks of the war, according to an AFP analysis based on the data of the American Institute for War Study (ISW). NEW: The rate of Russian advances in Ukraine has been increased in recent weeks but remains slow and consenting w/ positional warfare raging than with rapid mechanized maneuver—emphasizing how generally Stanant Russian advances have been after over two and half years of war. Moscow announces almost every day a victory “Russia has been in the attack all year, ” observed Meduza, a Russian opposition media banned in Russia. “But the week passed was one of the toughest for Ukrainian armed forces,” he added. ISW data does not indicate a military collapse of Ukraine. “ But what is more worrying is that it is a trend, ” appreciated French general Michel Goya as a war historian. “We are seeing acceleration of the advance and the feeling that we cannot undo it is created,” he added by saying “a Russian pressure strategy everywhere, at the same time, expecting that (the front) will be broken, fragmented or collapsed.” “The occupation of no location is of exceptional importance in its own right, but this overall is an important victory for the Russian army,” assured Alexandre Khramchiin, an independent Russian military analyst. “ The Russian advance, although not very fast, shows that the situation in Ukraine is getting worse and worse, ” he added. NEW: The rate of Russian advances in Ukraine has increased in recent weeks but remains slow and consenting w/ positional warfare rear than with rapid mechanized maneuver—emphasizing how generally staged Russian advances have been after over two and half years of war. The factor “North Korea” for Ukraine Moscow has maintained since 2022 superiority in artillery. Despite the financial sanctions imposed on it by the West, it has turned its economy into a war machine with the support of allied believers, mainly Iran and North Korea. “ The Russian war industry produces more weapons than Ukraine receives, ” Hramchin appreciated and “more ammunition thanks to its own industry and North Korea. ” In early 2024 the freeze from the U.S. Congress of aid to Ukraine caused significant delays in refueling the Ukrainian army, “while at the same time 3 million North Korean shells arrived at Russian warehouses,” Goya explained. At the same time Moscow used about 1,600 North Korean ballistic missiles KN-02 to attack Ukraine. 6/ For example, Russian forces identified the settlement of Vuhledar as of October 1, 2024, have continued to advance north and northwest of Vuhledar, and have made significant tactical Gains in and near Selydove (southeast of Pokrovsk) over the course of the past week. — Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) Instead of occupying the cities district – district, the Russian army chooses the strategy of asphyxiation. “The strategy is to threaten to surround enclaves who are forced to retreat,” Goya noted. Alexandre Kots, a journalist of the Russian vicar Komsomolskaya Pravda, explained that the Russian army did not launch attacks against cities and villages on the front line, where it should gradually understand every square meter, but preferred to surround them. In this way “the enemy may be forced to withdraw his troops and do so by crossing a large corridor open to fire”. Lack of soldiers and morals in Ukraine Gradually Russian advance drops the morale of Ukrainians. Kiev has difficulty finding new soldiers, while the disorganization of armed forces and corruption favours desertion and conscription denials. “To defeat an enemy, you must kill his hope. When the sacrifice of people killed means nothing, it no longer makes sense to fight,” Goya noted. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via REUTERS/File Photo “The Government (of Ukrainian President Volontimir) Zelensky, in the face of the fatigue of the civilian population since the war, has difficulty in mobilising” the Ukrainians, confirmed a French military man who wanted to maintain his anonymity. Kiev announced yesterday a new 160,000 men recruitment, mainly in front of the fear of developing North Korean troops on the side of the Russian army, in order to renew its army to 85%. Ivan Klizz, of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Estonia, stressed that at current pace Moscow “will understand the rest of Donbas in many months, at extremely high cost, possibly unbearable”. In addition Zelenski’s “win plan”, which aims to bring Kiev into power in order to negotiate with Moscow, divides the allies. And the American presidential election is causing great uncertainty. “ Ukraine will soon realize that it needs to change its direction and that in the near future support for its western partners will become a counterproductive strategy, ” Clizz explained. The development of North Korean soldiers can cause a sense of urgency to the Westerners. But “this feeling will be translated into promises or enhanced support? It remains to be seen,” he concluded.