“Any potential Russian redeployment to the Kherson direction will likely degrade the Russian ability to sustain other operations and efforts,” ISW concluded.Other takeaways from the ISW report:
- Russian forces have likely launched opportunistic localized offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction and intensified ground attacks near Bakhmut in recent days.
- Russian forces struck a civilian ship near Odesa City on November 8.
- Russia may seek to provide gas to Iran through Kazakhstan.
- Occupation authorities reportedly continued efforts to militarize Ukrainian youth.
- Ukraine downs 5 of 6 Russian drones, missiles in overnight raids
- Updated: Explosions reported in Russian-occupied Crimea again
- Ukraine to spend half of 2024 budget on defense, prime minister claims