Key Takeaways from the ISW:
- Russian forces recently advanced northeast of Siversk during a reinforced company-sized mechanized assault.
- Russian forces appear to be using armored vehicles more frequently in some tactical attacks after a decrease in the use of armor since Winter 2024-2025.
- The Kremlin reasserted its unchanged commitment to achieving its long-standing war aims in Ukraine that amount to nothing short of Ukraine’s full capitulation, undermining Russia’s diplomatic posturing.
- Ukrainian forces recently killed a Russian commander in the Velykyi Burluk direction.
- Russian forces recently advanced near Siversk, Toretsk, and Novopavlivka and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.
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