““It is unrealistic to capture the entire Donetsk region by the end of the year””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“It is unrealistic to capture the whole Donetsk region by the end of the year,” Budanov said.
But, according to him, Russian troops “have a political purpose to declare that they have entered” in the Dnipropetrovsk region and have the task of creating another buffer zone up to 10 kilometers.
According to Donetsk Ova, as of July 1, 2025, the estimated area of the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region is 66.7%. There are 837 settlements under the Russian occupation (447 of them – since 2014), the Regional Military Administration said Radio Liberty.
The American Institute for the Study of the War in its report, published on the night of July 8, suggested that Russian troops were changing the priorities of the offensive in the Pokrovsky direction after several weeks of unsuccessful attempts to move to Konstantinovka. According to ISW, the command of the Russian Federation will try to force Ukrainian troops to retreat from Pokrovsk and Mirnohrad under the threat of environment before reorganizing in the Konstantinovsky direction.