Russia has not demonstrated the ability to conduct several large offensive operations, which would be necessary to simultaneously enter the administrative borders of the Donetsk region and capture the city of Zaporizhzhia, analysts of the Institute for the Study of War believe.

Decisive Russian offensive operations are unlikely to target the city of Zaporizhia from the western line of the Donetsk-Zaporizh Front, as the Russian military continues to prepare for an offensive in western Luhansk Oblast, ISW notes in its latest analysis of the conflict.

Russian troops conducted offensive actions near Bakhmut and Vugledar, although they slowed down the offensive on the western outskirts of Donetsk.

It is also reported that Russian troops have launched “limited offensive operations” northwest of Svatovo and continued operations around the city of Kreminna.

ISV notes that the Russian troops are transferring military equipment and elite units to the occupied Luhansk region, which confirms all forecasts regarding the offensive to the west of the Luhansk region – Bakhmut.

At the same time, propagandists claim that at the end of January, Russian troops made territorial gains in the Zaporizhzhia region. ISW believes that these statements were probably an information operation aimed at dispersing Ukrainian forces ahead of a “decisive offensive in the east.”

Follow the latest developments from The 347th day of the war in Ukraine LIVETEXT on HOTNEWS.RO.