Russia's latest offensive goes in the Donbas region could prove to be extremely significant and decisive in the war against Ukraine, analysts say.
Russia's war with Ukraine entered a new phase this week with Moscow focusing its war machine on eastern Ukraine.
"It's quite clear that Russia's war aims remain quite extensive," Hess added, saying that how the battle for Donbas proceeds "will determine how much of Ukraine east of the Dnipro that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin carves away." By Tuesday morning, Russia's defense ministry claimed to have struck more than 1,200 targets in Ukraine overnight and later that day, there were numerous reports of intensifying rocket and artillery fire in eastern Ukraine. Officials said Russian forces have seized control of Kreminna, a city in the Luhansk region where street battles reportedly took place.
Sam Cranny-Evans, a research analyst at the British defense think tank RUSI, told CNBC Tuesday that there was much uncertainty over how the battle for Donbas will progress, and that while both sides will have depleted their respective materiel over the last two months, Ukraine could be in a more vulnerable position.
"The Russians have spent an awful lot of missiles in this war so far, which will be quite hard for it to replace ... and there's the additional questions of how much attrition will the Ukrainians inflict on them in Donbas," he said. For Ukraine, he said, there could be a difficult price to pay if it loses the battle for Donbas and Russia annexes the region. In any case, defining the winner and loser of the war will be no easy task amid the already-immense destruction seen in Ukraine.
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