📖 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Jan. 14, 2024 | ISW:
🔶️ Russian sources claimed that Russian forces are preparing to launch a new offensive in the coming weeks once the ground freezes in eastern and southern Ukraine.
🔶️ ISW previously assessed that freezing temperatures in Ukraine are likely currently constraining operations along the front but will likely create more favorable terrain for mechanized maneuver warfare as the ground freezes in the coming weeks.
🔶️ ISW continues to assess that Russian forces will likely try to sustain or intensify localized offensive operations throughout eastern Ukraine in an attempt to seize and retain the initiative regardless of winter weather and terrain conditions.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-14-2024
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