2022-03-26
A shift was announced by Russia's Defence Ministry on Friday:
" ... it has completed the first phase of its “special military operation” in Ukraine and will now focus on the eastern Donbas region"
“The combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been considerably reduced, which, I emphasize once again, makes it possible to focus on the main efforts to achieve the main goal … [the] liberation of Donbas”
Whilst I can believe that the first sentence is likely true, there's lots of speculation in the press in general about the reasons for this new focus but nothing strikes me as definitive.
I also note the MonkeyWerx assessment of the same date from studying aircraft movements, that NATO has recently been significantly building its forces in the area, so maybe some new initiative is afoot, military or otherwise.
(38 minutes - NATO content starts around 13 mins 35)
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His conclusion? More war is likely.
