After the Armed Forces of Ukraine knocked out Russian troops from the Izyum cauldron and liberated almost the entire Kharkiv region, the northeastern front line ran along the state border of Ukraine from the Oskol River in the north to its confluence with the Seversky Donets in the south. Based on military science, it can be assumed that both Ukraine and Russia will use the Oskol reservoir as a water barrier between the warring parties. This area will be docked in this position for the time being.
Ukrainian troops will continue their offensive on Liman, that is, they will move south of the Oskol reservoir. After that, they will begin to push the Russian military along the left bank of the Seversky Donets to the east, and along the right bank they will leave Seversk and storm Lisichansk. Further from Seversk to Donetsk, as in the last two months, offensive and counter-offensive actions will take place on both sides.
The southern front from Donetsk and the Zaporozhye region will remain in a latent state for the time being. The main actions will unfold on the right bank of the Dnieper, in the Zaporozhye region. Depending on the tasks of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the right-bank grouping of Russia will either be destroyed or captured and its access to the left bank will not be allowed. We are talking about 20-25 thousand Russian military.
The mechanisms that the Ukrainian command will use are non-standard, they are almost impossible to calculate. However, it can be assumed that the group will still be destroyed. The fact is that it shoots along a strip 50 km wide and 200–250 km long. Both 155-millimeter artillery and HIMARS will cope well with this. As a result of the destruction of this grouping, the occupied territories of Ukraine will be liberated.
The southern front from the Zaporozhye region to Donetsk is still in a latent state, so there are unlikely to be any hostilities there. Nevertheless, Russia fears a counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Orekhov to Melitopol – according to military science, this is the best option. To stop it, the Russian authorities will drive their troops there.
