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Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 22 September, 215 soldiers fighting on the Ukrainian side (including 108 from the Azov regiment) were exchanged for Viktor Medvedchuk – a pro-Russian politician with close personal ties to Vladimir Putin – and 55 Russian soldiers.…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 21 September, President Vladimir Putin signed the decree ‘On the announcement of partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation’. The document provides for the recruitment into the Russian Armed Forces of citizens obliged to serve in…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jadwiga Rogoża
The main arena of fighting remains the Donbas. Ukrainian forces are repelling attacks in the Bakhmut area and localities southeast and south. Russian assaults are also being held southwest of Donetsk, while the frequency of hostile strikes…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jadwiga Rogoża
Ukrainian forces have entered more villages in the recovered areas – Velyki Prokhody and Mali Prokhody north of Kharkiv. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malar reported that as of 6 September, an area of nearly 8,500 square kilometres in the…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Krzysztof Nieczypor
Ukrainian forces continue to take control of the previously occupied part of the Kharkiv region – up to and including 13 September, they have seized an area of nearly 4,000 km² with 300 villages and 150,000 inhabitants. A further 4,000 km²…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Krzysztof Nieczypor
As a result of the continuation of the advance in the Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian units have seized, among others, Kupansk, the junction town of Savyntsi, located between Balakliia and Izyum, and Izyum itself (although this has not yet been…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jadwiga Rogoża
The fighting in the Donetsk Oblast did not bring significant changes. Russian forces approached Bakhmut from the south-east, attacking the defenders’ positions in the village of Vesela Dolyna, neighbouring the city. The Ukrainians are…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jadwiga Rogoża
As warned by the Ukrainian side, the number of Russian rocket attacks increased significantly on Ukraine’s Independence Day, 24 August. The city of Dnipro and the Chaplyne railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were hit – the attack…
OSW Commentary |
| Andrzej Wilk
After six months of war, Ukraine can celebrate success – due to the mobilisation of its entire population to fight, and to unceasing reconnaissance and logistics support from the West, it continues to successfully defend itself. Russia, in…
OSW Commentary |
| Tadeusz Iwański
On 24 August 2021 Ukraine was celebrating the beginning of the fourth decade of its independence. Selected units of its Armed Forces paraded through Khreshchatyk, Kyiv’s main street. It would never have occurred to the Ukrainian citizens…