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Russian Winter Offensive in Ukraine (2022–2023)
Military operation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Russian Winter Offensive of 2022–2023 was a military campaign executed by Russian troops during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 22 December 2022, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov announced that the Russian army would focus on capturing the Donetsk Oblast.[4] In early February 2023, Russian troops began their winter offensive on the western section of the front in the Donetsk Oblast and on the Kupiansk–Svatove–Kreminna–Lyman line.[4] According to military experts, Russia wanted to quickly break through Ukrainian defenses and seize the Donetsk Oblast.[5] However, the Russian offensive was slow,[5] and according to American and British intelligence estimates, in the winter of 2023 the Russian army managed to achieve only minor progress at the cost of huge losses of its own.[1][3]
Russian Winter Offensive in Ukraine (2022–2023) | |||||||||
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Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine | |||||||||
![]() Zones of control in Ukraine as of 28 July 2024 | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
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Casualties and losses | |||||||||
![]() 20,000 killed (US claim)[3] |
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