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    Due to Legend mentioned and article by an author on substack I decided to read it:
https://substack.com/@bigserge/p-176674862
Indeed it is very interesting. 
About the Tomahawks Pascal says something similar in this:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jb1IuSqzEak
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jb1IuSqzEak
What I'm disagreeing on with Big Serge is Pokrovsk. He really downplays its importance, and ignores it entirely in the upcoming campaign in the envelopment of the Banana. See both picrels, first is directly from his substack, second is my edit.
I think Russia rather acquires a logistical hub at Pokrovsk-Myrnograd (like Bakhmut NE of here) and attack on a wider surface. Or even more wider than that: from somewhere between Zaporozhia city and Orikhiv in an arc where the "Main Supply Routes" arrow points to the western green road (N-NW of Pokrovsk).
I'm fairly sure they don't want to level the Kramatorsk-Sloviansk agglomeration so obviously cutting the main supply lines is a great start to gaining the last bastion of Donetsk oblast. They don't really have to capture the green roads, I think its enough if the front sits on them.
But to get to it, Pokrovsk is a #1 priority.
I do think that each group of forces has its own #1 priority, it would be cool to draw 'em on the map. I've no time to fiddle with it sadly.
Then all the group of forces has the goal to "liberate" Donetsk, the last of the puzzle will be the two towns. I don't think that'll happen in 2026. A lot of prerequisite for that to happen.
And the SMO has the goal of "demilitarizing" and "denazifying" Ukraine, above all this.
Baud wrote that the denazification was achieved with the capture of Mariupol, because they wanted to denazify there. I'm not sure how they could denazify Lvov for that matter, so they probably tick that box.
And the same author also wrote the demilitarization was also achived like four times over: RuAF destroyed the original equipment they had, then the donated old Soviet equipment, then the old NATO stuff, then the new NATO stuff, and now the West supplies Ukraine on "as fast as we can produce" basis. Attrition deals with this issue, but attrition should force Ukraine to the point where can't defend no more, and then force the disarmament and no NATO demand on them.
At least this is how I picture at the moment what the Kremlin dreams of.