Counter -offensive of Ukraine: Armed Forces are making local success, but may stop - isw

According to military researchers, Ukraine's main efforts have not yet been. And operating pauses are a common occurrence during major military operations. The Ukrainian forces can suspend a counter -offensive operation for some time and revalue current tactics for future attacks. About it reports the Institute of War Research in the summary of June 18. The head of the Estonian reconnaissance center Colonel Margo Grosberg said on June 16 that the next week of Ukraine's offensive was not expected.

According to The Wall Street Journal for June 17, the Ukrainian counter -offensive was mostly stopped to view further tactics. These data are consistent with the recent ISW estimates on the scale and approaches of local counterattack of Ukraine in the south and east. ISW has previously reported that the Armed Forces had not yet been launched. The main effort in the counter -offensive has not yet been done.

Operating pauses, recalled by military researchers, are a common phenomenon of major offensive operations. Current stop does not mean that the counter -offensive of the Armed Forces is over. At the same time, the ISW considers that on June 18, the defense forces conducted offensive operations on at least four sections of the front and achieved some success. Geolocation frames confirmed the limited progress of the Armed Forces in the region 30 km south of Kreminna.

The head of the Avdiiv City Military-Civil Administration Vitaliy Barabash reported that in the last two weeks the Armed Forces have advanced more than a kilometer in the city of Donetsk. Russian sources claimed that Ukraine's counter -offensive goes south, south -west and southeast from the Great Novosilka on the border of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions, which brought local success.

The Armed Forces continued operations in the west of Zaporizhzhya region, geolocated data showed that the Armed Forces were included in the western part of the settlement of Pyathatka, which is 41 km from Zaporozhye. The official representative of the Ukrainian Tavriya troops Captain Valery Shershen stated that the Russian forces continue counterattacks in the west of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions and that the Ukrainian forces have a lot of work.

Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov informed that Russian troops continued to transfer personnel and heavy armored vehicles from the area of ​​New Kakhovka and Kakhovka to the west of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions. We will remind that in the district of Zaporozhye Russia lost the deputy commander of the battalion and about 300 soldiers. There was also information that there were explosions in the occupied Crimea and there was a shooting. The occupying power raised helicopters to the sky.