ISW names direction in which Russia may launch new large-scale offensive

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported the information.. 

American analysts suggest that the Russian command may concentrate its expected offensive in late spring-summer 2024 in the western part of the Donetsk region. In this way, they hope to build on the steady but small progress of their troops in this direction. 

"Ukrainian officials have recently warned that Russian forces are accumulating personnel along the Kharkiv-Luhansk axis, near Bakhmut, near Avdiivka, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast, but ISW continues to assess that Russian forces will likely only be able to launch a concerted large-scale offensive operation in one operational direction at a time due to Russia’s own manpower and planning limitations," ISW concluded. 

• On March 29, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy named the conditions under which a new counteroffensive by the Ukrainian Defense Forces is possible this year.