{"id":1367187,"date":"2026-03-09T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russian-spring-summer-offensive-what-are-the-three-key-danger-zones\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:10:23","slug":"russian-spring-summer-offensive-what-are-the-three-key-danger-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russian-spring-summer-offensive-what-are-the-three-key-danger-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian spring-summer offensive: what are the three key danger zones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian invaders are preparing for the spring-summer campaign, focusing on several strategic areas. Although the main attack is planned by the occupiers on Zaporizhia and the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk direction, the Kharkiv region remains a zone of active maneuvers to distract Ukrainian forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vRTJjfTxSzs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; by military and political observer Oleksandr Kovalenko.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, the enemy seeks to create conditions for future offensives by concentrating resources in certain locations.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Similarly in the Kharkiv region, if in the Vovchansk direction, there is currently some limited maneuver for them, then it is exclusively the capture of Vovchansk by the end of the spring phase and the beginning of the summer phase,&#8221; Kovalenko noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vRTJjfTxSzs<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/how-long-will-the-war-last-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine-gave-a-forecast\/\">How long will the war last: the Armed Forces of Ukraine gave a forecast<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> He also informed that Kupyansk remains a key target for the Russian command, despite numerous fake statements about its capture. To strengthen this direction, the aggressor is attracting forces from the Sixth Combined Arms and First Tank Armies.<\/p>\n<p> Kovalenko considers the Velyko Burlutsk region to be the third risk point, where the enemy may try to disperse Ukraine&#8217;s defense forces. However, the implementation of these intentions will directly depend on Russia&#8217;s ability to conduct a general mobilization and accumulate the necessary human resources to open new sections of the front, the military-political observer emphasized.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, on the southern sector of the front, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are successfully carrying out counterattacks. Kovalenko reported that the Ukrainian defenders managed to seize the initiative on a section of about 45 kilometers long, which allows small tactical groups to effectively push back the enemy and restore control over territories within the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-authorities-reputation-has-fallen-below-the-plinth-russian-propagandists-increasingly-criticize-the-army-and-the-course-of-the-war\/\">\u201cThe authorities\u2019 reputation has fallen below the plinth\u201d: Russian propagandists increasingly criticize the army and the course of the war<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> &#8220;The Ukrainian Defense Forces have the ability to conduct counterattacks along almost the entire left, already left bank of the Gaichur River, as well as along the administrative border of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions,&#8221; the studio guest explains.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, Russian troops have focused on the location between Gulyaipol and Zaliznychny, trying to expand the zone of control and capture the strategic junction connecting the railway with the highway. Kovalenko believes that the occupiers are planning a large-scale movement north along both banks of the Gaichul River during the summer campaign, but now the invaders are losing positions on significant sections of the front and do not have the ability to quickly restore their influence, despite concentrating efforts on certain narrow directions.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, Russian troops <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiiany-namahaiutsia-zakhopyty-pokrovsk-i-myrnohrad-shcho-vidbuvaietsia-na-fronti\/\">are trying to completely capture Pokrovsk and Mirnograd<\/a> in the Donetsk region. Ukrainian units in the group&#8217;s area of responsibility are holding back enemy attacks. It also became known that as of March 6, Russian troops <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiyski-viyska-prosunulysia-na-sumshchyni\/\">had advanced near the village of Pokrovka<\/a> , Krasnopil community, Sumy region.<\/p>\n<p> Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War previously said that Russia could use the conflict in the Middle East to <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-mozhe-vyyty-z-myrnykh-perehovoriv-shchodo-ukrainy-analityky-rozkryly-plany-kremlia\/\">discredit peace talks<\/a> over Ukraine. They believe that the Kremlin may be trying to shift responsibility for the possible failure of the talks to the United States.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian invaders are preparing for the spring-summer campaign, focusing on several strategic areas. Although the main attack is planned by the occupiers on Zaporizhia and the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk direction, the Kharkiv region remains a zone of active maneuvers to distract Ukrainian forces. This was reported on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; by military and political observer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1366599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1367187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}