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Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Jakub Ber
Russian forces have probably captured the more important facilities in the centre of Bakhmut (including administration buildings and the train station) and linked up the subdivisions attacking from the northern and southern parts of the…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Jakub Ber
Ukrainian forces have improved their tactical situation as a result of their counterattack on the western side of the Donetsk-Donbas canal in the Ozarianivka area, and the seizure of some areas in the strip of no-man’s-land in the…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Jakub Ber
Russian forces have reached the centre of Bakhmut, where fierce fighting is taking place. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, after making a series of unsuccessful attempts to break through the defences to the northeast and south of…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Jakub Ber
On 25 March, President Vladimir Putin announced that the construction of a storage facility for tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would be completed by 1 July, and the training of personnel to handle the nuclear weapons stored there…
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak
On 21 March 2023 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that it had reached a preliminary agreement with Ukraine on an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme, under which the country will receive a total of $15.6 billion in…
Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski
Bakhmut and Avdiivka are still the main areas of fighting, as Russian forces (including units of the Wagner Group and the 1st Donetsk Army Corps) continue their operations to encircle both towns. Around Bakhmut, clashes are mainly taking…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On the night of 22 March, the Russians launched another attack using Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones. Unspecified infrastructure facilities in the Zhytomyr and Kyiv oblasts were damaged; at least four people were killed and more than 20…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Kłysiński
The stability of the Belarusian economy has come under threat from the new Western sanctions, imposed on the country in 2022 for its complicity in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the loss of the Ukrainian market. According to the most…
Analyses |
| Kamil Kłysiński
The founding congress of the Belaya Rus political party was held in Minsk on 18 March. It is based on the pro-regime social organisation of the same name, which has been active since 2007. More than 1000 delegates adopted its party…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Ukrainian forces are holding back the Russian advance along the M03 highway. The invading troops have failed to make any progress over the past few days; the fighting has stuck on the approaches to the hills separating the Russian forces…