Russia's Frontline Tradeoffs: The Strategy of Every Current Battle in Ukraine
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It is a busy time in Eastern Ukraine. Russia is pressing in a whole bunch of different locations, leading to some interesting military tensions all the way down the line. Today's video looks at all of the hotspots and examines what Russia is up to in each of them. From the attempted encirclements outside of Luhansk to the siege of Vuhledar, it will be a festival of lines on maps.
0:00 The Lines in the East Are Moving
0:59 Overview of the Front
3:06 Russia's Military Feasibility Question
4:15 Russia's Political Feasibility Question
5:38 Russia's Defensibility Question
6:42 The Dnipro River Front
9:07 The Zaporizhzhia Front
10:55 The Luhansk Front
14:45 The Bakhmut Front
15:52 The Vuhledar Front
17:44 The Pokrovsk Front
19:19 Overview of Donetsk
The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.
Media licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/):
By National Police of Ukraine:
https://dn.npu.gov.ua/news/z-v....uhledara-politseiski
By Government.ru:
http://archive.government.ru/eng/docs/12281
By Kremlin.ru
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/49437
http://en.kremlin.ru/catalog/k....eywords/78/events/50
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/54790
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/55063
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/60490
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/65133
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/65973
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67061
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69101
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/trips/69309
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69366/
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69390
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69465
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70098
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/72081/
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73083
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73084
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73255
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73411
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73585
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73732
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/75190
