Ukrainians Are Pressing Forward! Russian Positions Are Falling Apart!

The fighting in the Sumy direction has become a test case for Ukraine’s methodical approach to maneuver warfare. Rather than engaging in attritional frontal battles, Ukrainian forces are systematically isolating Russian strongholds and reducing them through encirclement and sustained fire control. This approach turns each settlement into a trap, where Russian units are starved of supplies, cut off from reinforcements, and slowly broken down by relentless drone and artillery strikes. The tempo of these operations creates a cascading effect: as one position falls, pressure mounts on the next, leaving Russian troops with fewer viable options. Moscow’s reliance on understrength, poorly equipped battalions to hold these lines exposes the structural weakness of its reserves. The result is a steadily tightening noose around Russian footholds in Sumy, where collapse has become not just possible, but increasingly inevitable.

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