“Russia can no longer carry out a lightning offensive,” says military historian Cédric Mas

Heavy bombings took place Friday, June 28, in eastern Ukraine, leaving four dead. The Russians are still trying to advance in the Donetsk region, but their advance has slowed down significantly in recent weeks. “The Russian forces can claim advances of a few hundred square kilometers, but on the scale of the map and the front this is obviously incidental. The line on this front has hardly changed”assures Cédric Mas, military historian interviewed on Saturday June 29 on franceinfo.

“Since the Russian offensive north of Kharkiv at the beginning of May, the Ukrainians have taken back almost all the positions they had been forced to leave. This shows that Russia can no longer carry out a lightning offensive like at the start of the invasion “, analyzes Cédric Mas. A Ukrainian drone attack also left five people dead in a Russian village on the border between the two countries on Saturday.