According to Tagesschau, military expert Franz-Stefan Gady said in an interview that the main fighting in Ukraine remains in the east, in the Donbas, with a primary axis of advance in the southern part of Donetsk. He said Russian attacks are aiming to encircle the anchor towns known as Sloviansk and Kramatorsk and then push further west from there. Gady added that, so far, Russian offensive efforts have not achieved the decisive successes the Russian military leadership may have expected.
Tagesschau reports that Gady attributes the changed situation mainly to Ukrainian progress in unmanned warfare. He said Ukraine has achieved partial superiority or parity in unmanned systems, particularly drones but also unmanned ground vehicles. As a result, Ukrainian forces can now strike targets roughly 30 kilometers behind the front line and in some cases as far as about 200 kilometers away. Gady cited Russian command areas, supply routes and troop concentrations deep in the rear as examples of such targets.
Gady stressed that this capability has closed a previously existing gap. Consequently, the Russians are currently limited defensively because they cannot concentrate their forces for offensive operations to the same extent as in earlier months or last year. Against this background, he explicitly warned against drawing too much optimism from the current Ukrainian advances. He urged restraint and noted that Russian forces have regrouped in recent weeks.
Tagesschau adds that the ceasefire was ordered by Putin and that Ukraine responded with its own announcement. Gady described the situation in light of these developments without providing further operational details or forecasts. He concluded that the changes in unmanned warfare are significant but do not by themselves prove a definitive turning point in the conflict.
Source: Tagesschau
