The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has published another assessment of the state of affairs at the front.. Its main conclusion is that the Russian army is successfully advancing towards Lisichansk from the south, avoiding a direct offensive from Severodonetsk, which is associated with the need to force the Seversky Donets.

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Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Russian army managed to take several settlements south of Lisichansk. As a result, there was a threat of local encirclement of part of the Ukrainian troops in the area of \u200b\u200bthe settlements of Zolote and Gorskoye..

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About the situation near Kharkov, ISW experts write that " The experts of the institute explain the constant shelling of the regional center by the desire "

According to ISW estimates, in the area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bKherson and Nikolaev, Russian troops probably managed to re-occupy part of the eastern bank of the Ingulets River, which the UAF has controlled since May 28. We are talking about a section of the coast near the border of the Kherson and Nikolaev regions. "

Earlier, Ukrainian sources reported on the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the Kherson region..

In addition, a significant part of the summary of the Institute for the Study of War is devoted to the alleged personnel changes in the Russian leadership of the military operation..

The Kremlin recently replaced the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces and is now possibly continuing a radical reshuffling of the entire command structure of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which may indicate a desire to punish top officers responsible for the failures in Ukraine, ISW experts say..

The Institute cites several Russian media reports that the head of the General Staff of the Central Military District, Mikhail Teplinskiy, has replaced Andrey Serdyukov as Commander of the Airborne Forces.. "

The Institute also cites several conflicting reports about the replacement of General Alexander Dvornikov, the current commander of the Southern Military District and overall leader of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine..

According to some reports, General Sergei Surovikin, the current commander of the Russian aerospace forces, will soon be appointed head of the Southern Military District.

However, on June 19, the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) reported that instead of Dvornikov, Putin appointed Gennady Zhidko, Deputy Minister of Defense and Head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Army, to head the Russian military campaign in Ukraine..

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