Andrea Margetti took stock of the situation regarding the military strategy implemented by Russia Ukraine, where there is essentially a stalemate as we now enter a full month into the war. The geopolitical expert, adviser to the defense minister and president of the Center for International Studies in Rome, repeated in La Stampa’s columns the tactics currently being pursued by the Russians.
These are “massive bombing raids on Ukrainian cities” such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy and Mariupol with the aim of “bending the will of both the army and the civilian population themselves to continue fighting and thus resist the military offensive”. Margelletti also stressed that Appian Russia’s military action, although slow, is happening regularly: “Moscow’s armed forces are gradually gaining groundmeter by meter, mainly along the southern and eastern direction “. Along the eastern front “violent clashes continue near the city of Izium, the status of which is uncertain at the moment. Should the Russians manage to finally conquer it and their By consolidating positions, they could push further south to achieve their goal of isolating and encircling Ukrainian forces stationed in the east along the front line with the selfproclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Finally, Margelletti took stock of the capital Kyiv: “The Ukrainian armed forces continue to offer fierce resistance to the Russian offensive. Overall, the Russians are intensifying air and missile attacks, trying to approach from the east to complete the encirclement of the capital.