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Ukraine Situation Report: Breakthrough At Russia's Second Defensive Line
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Do we know how many lines there are?
I know it should get easier through each one as the first is most fortified followed by second etc, but at some point they should just be into unfortified areas?
Apparently 3 lines.
But rumors seem to be that the 1st line was where the Russians put most of their effort into. The fact that the 2nd line of defense might already have a breakthrough proves this rumor.
The 3rd line of defense may be worse defended than even the 2nd line. So Russians may be failing at elastic defense (the 2nd and 3rd lines are supposed to be harder to take, because you can move troops and "react" to how the enemy works vs the 1st line). So this is a very promising development, if the lines get "easier" instead of "harder" to breakthrough, then the 2nd and 3rd lines almost don't count at all.
Yeah. I heard 60% of resources went into the first line, even split for the other two.
In the article it states they predict that 80% went into the first line, but the bulk of reinforcements are at the 3rd line