Where does Putin go? Why the attack of the occupiers in the Donbass is depleted and they will try to shift the focus of war to other directions - analysis

The Russian T-72 Russian tank in the Chernihiv region, July 5 (photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko) Ukraine will continue to defend the Donbas, exchange with the enemy attacks in the north of Kharkov, but the south will become a new "hot point" of war. The situation in eastern Ukraine has stabilized and now the main focus of the war has shifted to the southern direction. Such a statement was made in the Pentagon on August 9.

According to Kal Kal, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the United States, both parties - both Ukrainians and Russians have suffered losses, and this war is the most intense conflict in Europe since World War II. "But Ukrainians have many advantages, not the last of which is their will to win," he added.

Whether the fighting center has moved to the south, where the occupiers can unfold their offensive and what happens in other areas of the front - NV gathered assessments of domestic and Western military analysts in this regard.

Kherson is the key to war? Then the Armed Forces with the help of American M142 Himars reactive systems began to methodically destroy the ammunition and enemy commands in the south, as well as strike on road and railway bridges across the Dnieper in the Kherson area, as well as in a similar object in the new Kakhovka area. Thus, the supply of the entire enemy group, which holds the bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper, between Kherson and Nikolaev, was threatened.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces is constantly reporting on the liberation of villages in Kherson region: in early August, they stated that in total, 53 settlements had already been returned in the AFU region, seven of them in the last week. Recently, the General Staff stated that the Russians had launched a defense operation in the south. Fresh reports of the UK Ministry of Defense dedicated to Ukraine now say that the epicenter of fighting moves from Donbass to Kherson region.

And control over crossings through the Dnieper will become their key factor. According to the British, Russian troops accumulate in the south - columns of military equipment of the invaders army go from eastern regions of Ukraine to Kherson. This is done, according to the UK defense agency, or for the offensive, or to stop the Armed Forces.