The Russian winter offensive is failing. This is supported by British intelligence in the usual update on the war in Ukraine, according to which the Russian Chief of Staff, Valery Gerasimov, who took command of the special operation last January 11, tried “to launch a winter offensive with the aim of extending Russian control over the entire Donbass region”. “Eighty days later, it is increasingly evident that this project has failed”, underlines the intelligence, recalling that in various places on the front “Russian forces have achieved only marginal successes at the cost of tens of thousands of victims”.
According to London, Gerasimov is thus “wasting” the advantage in terms of personnel obtained with last year’s partial mobilization and “there is a realistic possibility” that the general is exceeding “the limits of the Russian political leadership’s tolerance for failures “.
