Switches focus to ‘liberating’ Donbas
Russia is likely to launch a new offensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. The Ukrainian leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the Donbas have asked civilians to evacuate west.
According to Jack Watling, military strategy expert at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a lot of the Ukrainian forces “are fixed along the line of contact by ongoing artillery bombardment.” He expects the Russian attacks to come from the north and the south “round their flanks”.