Kyiv has broken through defenses in the south and is said to be advancing towards Verbove in the Zaporizhzhia oblast.
) said on Monday that the tactical situation in Verbove"remains unclear." Ukraine's General Staff reported continued offensive operations in the Melitopol direction and offensive assaults in the Bakhmut direction, which inflicted losses on Russian manpower and equipment and depleted Russian forces"along the entire front line."
Douglas Webber, emeritus professor of political science at the European Institute of Business Administration , said that Putin"is unlikely to be unduly perturbed by recent, territorially limited Ukrainian gains" unless they enable Ukraine to make a decisive breakthrough and isolate Crimea from Russia.
However, the think tank said for Kyiv to make a significant breakthrough, its forces would need to have enough combat power—which Russia would have to lack, and Russian defenses would need to be less mined than the ones Kyiv's troops have already fought through.
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