Analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War noted that the enemy had slowed down the pace of the offensive in the Kupyansk direction.
ISW reported this information, URA-Inform reports.
Instead, the troops of the aggressor country concentrated their efforts on offensive operations in the Liman direction.
In particular, the ISW report notes that a representative operating in the Kupyansky direction stated that Russian troops now aim to reach the administrative borders of the Lugansk region in the Limansky direction and on the eastern bank of the Oskol River in the Kupyansky direction.
Consequently , the enemy is replenishing and rotating unspecified degraded units that took part in offensive operations in the Kupyansk direction before the Russian presidential elections on March 17.
In addition, it is noted that on March 30, positional battles continued on the Kupyansk-Svatovo line Kremennaya
« Positional battles took place to the northeast of Kupyansk near Sinkovka, to the west of Kremennaya near Ternov and 12 kilometers south of Kremennaya near Belogorovka», — noted at the Institute.
In addition, analysts noted that the defense department of the aggressor country continues to claim that the Russian Southern Group of Forces captured Ivanovskoye (west of Bakhmut), but ISW has not yet found visual evidence confirming these statements.
Recall that it was previously reported that the Russians occupied commanding heights in Chasovoy Yar: the analyst called the threat.