Russia has suffered catastrophic losses and can no longer launch major offensives. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that after the summer offensive campaign, Russian forces no longer have the resources for large-scale attacks, UNIAN reports.
There were fears that Russian troops could rapidly capture Sumy after Ukrainian forces retreated from the Kursk Oblast. But that did not happen. At the same time, Russia has concentrated 100,000 troops in the Pokrovsk direction, larger than some NATO states’ entire troops. Ukrainian forces are suffering the heaviest losses there, but they continue to hold the line, even with no military aid from US President Donald Trump’s administration.
Four Russian offensive directions
“Russia selected four main directions according to all documents and intelligence data. We only didn’t know the sequence, but it happened:
- The offensive in the Sumy direction
- the Novopavlivka operation,
- the Pokrovsk operation,
- the Zaporizhzhia direction,” Zelenskyy explains.
Failure in Sumy and heavy losses
Russian forces were defeated in the Sumy direction and had to redeploy to other fronts.
“They suffered heavy losses, primarily personnel. Today, they have abandoned this direction and shifted their resources and troops elsewhere. I believe they incurred even more losses there,” Zelenskyy says.
No more large-scale offensives
Thanks to the successful actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian troops have lost enough personnel to prevent them from conducting major offensives.
“At this point, they do not have sufficient forces for mass operations,” Zelenskyy stresses, noting that details of the losses will be published in the coming days.