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Welcome to the War on the Rocks podcast covering strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.

I'm here once again with Mike Kaufman and as always we're talking about the

war in Ukraine. Mike eager to get your overview of the main events why don't we start

as we as we always do on the front lines?

My general sense of where we are right now is that the Ukrainian offensive culminated

earlier in the fall.

The Russian offensive such as it has had

basically been comprised of a three-prong attack. One main effort at EFCA. That effort is pewered out on the situation

around EFCA is thankfully stabilized, although I don't think things are done there as we look

out over the course of the winter. Another effort took place around

Bachmutt and the Russian counter attack of Bachmoot managed to reclaim some of the territory that was liberated, particularly around northern

Bahmoud and they're trying to come after the parts around southern flank of Bahmoud as well. There was a Russian attack as well

our efforts made by Kupiansk further north and probably most recently the one area

where they made some progress is in a town that they've been fighting over for a long time by the name of Marinka.

And they're also trying to pressure Novumihylovka.

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