>>62896325
The lesson they learned from Bakhmut is that attacking a big city head-on leads to excessive losses. They have been spending months widening the front to Pokrovsk and will keep doing that for another 2 months at least.

>Vuhledar
Losses here a bit exaggerated since they weren't attacking Vuhledar continuously for months. It was just a couple failed attacks. Their victory here improves things on an operational level because they will soon be able to take Kurakhove and all of southern Donestk, thereafter entering Dnipro oblast.

>Avdiivka
This was quite painful in terms of losses but it led to the current situation where they are reasonably 8 months away from having all of southern and central Donetsk oblast.

>with looming manpower shortages
Every expert talks about Russia's manpower being sustainable with 30,000 people signing up per month. They also talk about Ukraine being very far from their mobilization targets.

>the loss of artillery superiority
It's not that Russia's use of artillery declined but Ukraine moved out of a low point in their own use of artillery. Ukraine is limited by the number of barrels they have being insufficient to sustainably fire all of the shells they are given. Russia is increasingly gaining bomb superiority. They drop nearly 3000 bombs per month while Ukraine only receives 50 French Hammer bombs per month for instance.

>The random mobik assaults on treelines work fine in open fields, but those tactics don't work for urban assaults.
They took Selydove and Novohrodivka in a couple days by partially encircling them so Ukraine would withdraw. Ukraine won't withdraw from Pokrovsk from this tactic but it will increase the cost to Ukraine in their attempts to defend the city.

Back | Go to board

Board:

/k/

Thread:

Bravo. Semi-encirclement is a good tactic to pressure withdrawals.