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The main activity is still in Donetsk, on the Pokrovsk front, or the frontline between Velyke Novosilka and Bakhmut.
The push on this line never stopped since Avdiivka fell. Kurakhove was an important capture, then Velyka Novosilka fell in late January. It as a gradual grind, smaller captures each day.
Big push started at the very end of April north of Ocheretyne in the direction of Konstantynivka. That town is an important bastion on the southern end of that chain of settlements with the Kramatorsk-Slovianks duo on the northern end, which is the biggest prize in Donetsk. I don't think they can storm those places, so it will be important to cut them off, and degrade the AFU enough by then. Ofc, if they atrite them enough, they might just take everything if the Ukrainian army collapses.
For now I think they try to take Pokrovsk, or rather the Pokrovsk-Myrnograd duo, but for that they need both flanks more spread out and secure, so they can envelope the town and force the AFU out there.
Thinking about the losses. In my opinion they are way overblown in these months.
The footages show handful of soldiers attacking. 8 is a lot. How many of these attacks happen a day at one segment and the whole frontline?
And I also hear stuff that trenches are defended by very few people. Like in a 100 meters of treeline there are two dudes, hidden from both enemy and friendly drones, noone knows where they are in that 100 meters. How many such segments are attacked daily?
And I don't try to imply only the Russians are attacking, they are Ukrainian counter operations.