Key Takeaways from the ISW:
- Ukraine appears to be intensifying attacks against Russian military, logistics, and other high-profile assets in rear areas in occupied Ukraine and Russia.
- The Russian government is attempting to downplay the extent of its efforts to strengthen control over the Russian information space.
- Russia continues to posture itself as a prominent security guarantor for authoritarian countries in Africa.
- Russian forces conducted a limited series of missile strikes targeting southern Ukraine on November 12.
- Russian forces continued offensive operations along the Kupyansk-Kreminna line, near Bakhmut, in the Donetsk-Zaporizhia Oblast border area, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.
- Ukrainian forces made a marginal gain on the east (left) bank of Kherson Oblast on November 12 amid ongoing ground operations.
Authors: Karolina Hird, Grace Mappes, Christina Harward, Angelica Evans, and Frederick W. Kagan.
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