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Good maps of potential winter offensive.
РЕЙД operations termed by the general staff, would be to rapidly advance, and clear the zone of Ukrainian army, then leave sensors and mines across the region, as the cities are emptying of civilians.
Then Russian army would withdraw back to the border, where defensive fortifications in voronezh and Belgorod are already being built.
This way they can demilitarize the zone and withdraw afterwards.
РЕЙД operations are essentially like force recon, or recon in force how we saw in March, rapid movement, with massive bombardment to clear the AOR of ukros, then withdrawing behind pre-planned defenses and mining the zone between the so called "wagner line" and the acceptable nazi nest.
Russian forces would only occupy the zones shown temporarily to give time to Ukrainian troops and civilians to exit from 2 corridors, the nazi one, or to Russia.
The Russian advances on Pavlovka, Opytnoye, Marinka, and Chasov Yar actually have a huge significance.
If anyone has seen maps of Ukrainian reserves in this area, Ugledar-Gulyai-Pole,
It makes sense, in Kiev there is a delusion that western advisors have not been able to cull, that they can press an offensive from Ugledar to Mariupol.
They cannot do this due to the capture of those settlements in donbass leading to Artemovsk, which is a vacuum of reserve units initially built up for na offensive on Mariupol.
This is also further cementing the belief that an offensive in Chernigov, Sumy, and Kharkov is imminent, if not only to draw out forces from the south, but also to annihilate them in one go, while in the south the progressive warfare to Slavyansk continues.