The Russian army lacks reserves to significantly strengthen its forces on the Kherson front, but it is rotating forces and building "defensive lines" there. Source: Nataliia Humeniuk, head of the joint press centre of Operational Command Pivden (South), on the air during the national joint 24/7 newscast on the morning of 15 September Quote: "Now, we do not observe the creation of critical strike groups in our area of responsibility, but we see powerful manoeuvres; they (Russians) are trying to r
The Zaporizhzhia front has been abuzz with news of Ukrainians breaking through Russia’s first defensive line and chiseling away at a breach in the second. “They’re widening that breach at this stage to enable the flow of armored vehicles and logistics so they can exploit it,” Michael Kofman, defense analyst and senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment, told the Kyiv Independent. “The defense was counting on the (Russians) being able to retreat,” said Viktor Kivliuk, a retired Ukrainian colonel with the think tank Center for Defense Strategies.