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Russo-Ukraine War Assessment: Week of 27 March to 3 April
Note to my work colleagues: Apologies for missing a week of updates last week. As I’ve gotten into these updates, I inadvertently began to produce them at the expense of other efforts. Moving to this medium allows me to continue providing analysis of the conflict for you, and share it with others via social media. I’ll be moving to a weekly format so that we can capture big changes (and unlike Week 5, Week 6 was busy).
The War in Brief
Here is the ISW Assessrep for 3 April 2022.
Perhaps the most stunning (and welcome) news of this week comes in the form of successful Ukrainian counterattacks against the Russians. From Kyiv to Sumy, the Ukrainian Army and resistance have place relentless pressure on the Russians, and the Russians are buckling. In fact, they (the Russian Army) are in total disarray in the North and Northeast.
The first indication that the Russians were about to get rolled back came in the form of a daring helicopter raid on a Russian fuel depot inside Russia! (Specifically in Belagrod.) To date, Ukrainian forces have actually conducted three raids in Belagrod which was a major…
