Russian troops get profits in Ukraine before the Putin-Trump summit

Days before summit Among the leaders of Russia and the United States in Alaska, Moscow’s forces violated Ukrainian lines in a series of infiltrations in the industrial heart of the country of Donetsk. Although advances are equivalent only to limited success for Russia, since it still needs to consolidate its profits before achieving true advance, analysts say, it is a potentially dangerous moment for Ukraine.

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will celebrate his high -risk discussion on war in Ukraine in Alaska on Friday. At the same time, Ukraine will observe from abroad together with European allies, hoping that Trump protects his interests.

Putin He will probably try to persuade Mr. Trump to press Ukraine arguing The war It’s bad for Kyiv, said Mykola Bieleskov, a senior analyst at CBA Initiatives Center.

“The key risk to Ukraine is that Kremlin will try to convert certain local profits into the battlefield into strategic victories at the negotiating table,” he said.

When asked about Russia’s continuous military offensive while he went to Alaska on Friday morning, Trump said Putin is “trying to prepare a stage. I mean, in his mind, that helps him make a better deal. It really hurts him, but in his mind, that helps him make a better treatment, if they can continue the murder.”

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Tuesday that Putin wants Ukraine to retire from the remaining 30% of the Donetsk region that kyiv still controls as part of a high fire agreement, a proposal that the Ukrainian leader categorically rejected.

After years of struggle, Russia still does not completely control the entire Donetsk region, which illegally annexed in 2022, along with the regions of Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

The attention has focused on Pokrovsk, a key road and a railway crossing that was once the home of about 60,000 and is now partially surrounded, but the Russian forces have been investigating the weaknesses north of the city, according to the Battlefield Deepstate analysis site. The forces found a gap east of the city of Dobropillia Minera de Coal and advanced to about 6 miles.

Zelenskyy pointed out its clear meaning for the summit: “Create a certain information backdrop before Putin meeting with Trump, especially in the American information space, suggesting that Russia is moving forward and Ukraine is losing ground.”

Russia trying to expand their profits

Small groups of Russian troops are passing the first defensive line, hiding and trying to develop their forces, said Dmytro Trehubov, spokesman for the “Dnipro” Operational Strategic Group of Ukraine.

The Ukraine Army has been repelting these attempts, he said, although Deepstate said the situation has not stabilized.

Analysts described the rape near Debropillia as a localized crisis that could intensify if the Russians are not neutralized and their main forces can expand the gap.

The violation of the defensive line has seemed inevitable for months, according to a drone pilot in the area, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. Moscow’s forces have been exploiting the lack of Ukrainian infantry, a problem linked not only to the stagnant mobilization of the country but also to poor management, said the pilot.

“We pay with territory and lives to correct errors, and we can continue to fix errors only while we have a land waste,” said the pilot.

Ukrainian forces have tried to connect the holes through the extensive use of first -person drones, remotely loaded devices loaded with explosives that allow operators to see objectives before hitting.

These FPV have turned areas up to approximately 12 miles from the front into fatal areas on both sides of the line. But because the Russians attack with small groups, it is difficult to counteract only with drones.

“We cannot launch 100 FPV at the same time,” said the pilot, noting that drones operators would interfere with each other.

With more or less equal tactics and technology on both sides, the superior labor of the Russians works for their advantage, said Bielieskov, an analyst based in kyiv.

“They do not take into account human life. Very often, most of those who send are in a unidirectional mission,” he said.

Stop infiltrations and assaults on armored vehicles require different defenses and leadership structures, changes that have not yet appeared on the side of Ukraine, he said.

Ukraine seeks to stop recent tide

The Ukraine Army said that the additional troops on Thursday have moved to the affected areas, with hardened forces by the battle as the Azov brigade that is deployed in the sector. However, the Deepstate map shows no change in favor of the Ukrainian army.

Michael Kofman, Carnegie Endowment military analyst, said in an X post that was too early to assess whether the front line collapsed.

Russia focuses on expanding the violation of the front line in a corridor to support their land forces, Bieleskov said. The strategy avoids direct assaults in very fortified urban centers, instead of pushing through the open land where the shortage of Ukraine troops and large settlements hinder defense.

If it is successful, such movement could avoid Russia’s need to assault Kostiantynykka, once a city of more than 67,000 people and now was significantly ruined and on the edge of the fall. That would complicate the last major cities of Sloviansk, Kramorsk and Druzhkivka in the region, raising a serious challenge for the military of Ukraine.

CMDR. Serhii Filimonov of the “Da Vinci Lobos” Battalion of the 59th Brigade warned that Kostiantynivka could fall without fighting if Russia breaks the supply routes.

With few important roads, maintaining logistics for the large number of Ukrainian forces in the area would become “extremely difficult,” said Filimonov.

At the top, Filimonov denounced what he described as russian murders and atrocities. “And then the civilized world comes to them and says: ‘Well, let’s make a deal.’ That is not how it should be done,” he said.

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