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Russia has prepared tens of kilometers of new trenches and defensive structures in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk oblasts in recent months, according to a Jan. 9 Telegram post by the Ukrainian mayor of Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov.

During his work trip to Zaporizhzhia, President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting on building fortifications "on main defensive lines" and in regions bordering Russia and Belarus, the President's Office reported on Nov. 30.

Ukrainian forces have gained control of the Dnipro left bank’s floodplain in Kherson Oblast, forcing the Russians to build new defensive lines on hills farther from the river, former Aidar Battalion company commander Yevhen Dykyi told Radio NV.

All this talk about VJ and Payton and Paton is quite real and based in the reality of what is happening. One thing that I do not see is what Denver needs and needs right now to build for the...

Russia is trying to prevent Ukraine from breaking through on a key part of the front line, but it lacks strength in depth, a US think tank says.

Ukraine needs three conditions to be true to make a significant breakthrough against Russia's defenses, the Institute for the Study of War wrote.

Eight machines like this one are already in Ukraine to do the dangerous work of dealing with minefields.

Russia's first line of defense in Ukraine has been hard to penetrate. But analysts say too many resources have been focused on it.

The Russian army lacks reserves to significantly strengthen its forces on the Kherson front, but it is rotating forces and building "defensive lines" there. Source: Nataliia Humeniuk, head of the joint press centre of Operational Command Pivden (South), on the air during the national joint 24/7 newscast on the morning of 15 September Quote: "Now, we do not observe the creation of critical strike groups in our area of responsibility, but we see powerful manoeuvres; they (Russians) ...

The Zaporizhzhia front has been abuzz with news of Ukrainians breaking through Russia’s first defensive line and chiseling away at a breach in the second. “They’re widening that breach at this stage to enable the flow of armored vehicles and logistics so they can exploit it,” Michael Kofman, defense analyst and senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment, told the Kyiv Independent. “The defense was counting on the (Russians) being able to retreat,” said Viktor...