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| Russia Planning Major late winter Op in Luhansk |
| 2023-01-29 |
| [EuromaidanPress] ...ISW's current assessment that the Kremlin is preparing "a decisive strategic action" in the next six months most likely in Luhansk Oblast. Russian officials, Kremlin advisors, and other unspecified knowledgeable figures who spoke on condition of anonymity reportedly told Bloomberg that Putin seeks to conduct a new major offensive and that he believes that Russia's tolerance to accept causalities will allow Russia to win the war in the long run despite Russian failures so far. --------- ISW=Institute for Study of War. Russia has probably lost 10k to 20k soldiers and lots of equipment in the past 6 months trying to take Bakhmut. |
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