The Russians are concentrating their resources in the Luhansk region in several directions at once, we are talking about aviation, artillery and personnel. This is stated in a new report by the US Institute for the Study of War..

Russians take resources from Izyum, Kharkov, Donetsk and Zaporozhye. They are trying to simultaneously cordon off several pockets of Ukrainian defenders in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. We are talking about the wider area of \u200b\u200bSeverodonetsk (including Rubizhne and Lysychansk), Bakhmut-Lysichansk, the vicinity of Zolote (to the northeast of Popasnaya) and Avdiivka.

ISW note that the Russians moved faster last week than in May as a whole, although this progress remains slow.. The occupiers limit themselves to smaller plans than the Kremlin predicted, and besides, they meet powerful resistance from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“The achievements of the Russians are not a big breakthrough,” experts say. "

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The head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that Russia had deployed 25 battalion tactical groups, each of which had up to 500 servicemen, to storm the Lugansk region.. The occupiers will try to gain full control over the area.

Meanwhile, British intelligence notes that the capture of the city of Severodonetsk could lead to the occupation of the entire Lugansk region.. But so far the Russian Federation has managed to achieve only local successes..