Last week, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov reformulated the main goals of the “military special operation” and said that one of Russia’s main goals is to “protect” the inhabitants of Donbass and southeast Ukraine, but argued that there was still a lot of work to “liberate” these territories..

Peskov's comments suggest that Russia's current "

According to UK Department of Defense analysts, Russia, in all likelihood, is still seeking to extend control over all Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.. Russian military planners are still striving to keep pushing deep into the Donetsk region a priority.

“However, the Russian strategy is unlikely to achieve its goals: it is very unlikely that the Russian military is now able to form an effective strike force capable of retaking these areas,” British intelligence believes and notes that Russian ground forces are unlikely to achieve significant operational success over the next.

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Recall, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on December 7, during an online meeting of the Human Rights Council, said that "