Based on the results of the past day, analysts at the American Institute for War Research came to the following conclusions:.

Russian nationalists and war advocates are calling on the Kremlin to formally define operations in Ukraine as a war, to conduct a general mobilization and to achieve the expansion of territorial goals that culminated on July 19, when some criticized the Kremlin and others claimed that Putin was preparing to “Syrianize” the war all along.

The Kremlin will most likely try to illegally annex the occupied Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Luhansk regions to Russia as early as September 11, 2022.

Russian bloggers noted the inability of the Kremlin's airborne troops to fight, a critique that explains Russia's massive setbacks during the initial invasion of Ukraine.

Russian troops continued their attempts to resume offensive operations on Slavyansk from the southeast of Izyum and in the Barvenkovo \u200b\u200barea.

The invaders continued ground attacks east of Seversk and east of Bakhmut.