Counter -offensive in Kharkiv region: The Armed Forces advanced at least 20 km - isw (photo)

According to analysts, the Armed Forces used the moment when the command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation decided to redistribute the main forces and directed its units in the Kherson direction, waiting for a counter -offensive in the south of Ukraine. The Ukrainian army, for its part, began to move in the southeastern part of Kharkiv region, which is under the control of Russia.

"Ukrainian forces probably used tactical suddenness to move at least 20 km on Russia -controlled territory in the Kharkiv region, capturing almost 400 square kilometers Action, and the Russian group in the area was probably not strong enough due to previous overturning to support efforts to capture the rest of the Donetsk region and support the Southern Axis, "the ISW report reads.

In the document, American analysts also refer to the pro -Kremlin military bloggers who have suggested that the counter -offensive of the Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region is carried out in order to cut ground lines of communication with the rear objects in Kupyansk and Izium. Such a strategy will allow Ukraine to isolate the Russian military group and liberate most of the captured territories.

Analysts say that bloggers from the Russian Federation, commenting on the promotion of the Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region, used panic tones and recognized the significant success of Kiev on this area of ​​the front. "The level of shock and open discussion of Ukrainian success by Russian bloggers speaks of the scale of the surprise achieved by Ukrainian forces, which is likely to successfully demoralize the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Although it is unlikely that counter -offensive and effort to weaken Russian forces in the south of Ukraine is an attempt to restore operations in Kharkiv region . We will remind, on September 6 in the media there was information that in the north of the Kharkiv region there are fierce battles, in the process of which units of the Armed Forces try to push the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to the state border.