OPERATION DECAPITATION: Ukrainians Strike all Russian Command Centers at Once!

The Donetsk front has emerged as the critical pressure point in Russia’s wider campaign, as Moscow diverts exhausted formations from across the theater to keep its push toward Pokrovsk alive. This mass redeployment created both vulnerabilities and opportunities, as Moscow concentrated its command structure around a few key hubs to coordinate the offensive. For Ukraine, the challenge was clear: disrupt these nodes before fresh Russian brigades could be brought to bear. Intelligence and reconnaissance networks—ranging from cyber intrusions to partisan reports and aerial surveillance—provided Kyiv with a detailed picture of enemy movements and decision-making centers. With that awareness, Ukraine was positioned to strike not at the spearhead itself, but at the brains directing the assault. The confrontation in Donetsk has thus become not only a clash of troops and armor, but also a contest of precision, intelligence dominance, and the ability to decapitate command structures at the decisive moment.