Originally Posted by
etudiant
Cannot believe that the Russian main effort would continue to be Kiev, one bloody nose is surely enough.
Rather agree that they are likely to reinforce their drive around the eastern edge of Ukraine.
There they are making headway and appear to have trapped part of the Ukrainian forces in the north east, as indicated by the French situation reports
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https://www.defense.gouv.fr/ukraine-point-situation
I would imagine it’s tying down Ukrainian forces from reinforcing elsewhere, plus those troops that have come in from Belarus etc which would mean it would be difficult to redeploy them to where needed without retreating, possible reason why they are simply digging in?