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Indicators and Thresholds for Russian Military Operations in Ukraine and/or Belarus
Updated 2/17/21
"Russia is setting conditions to conduct military operations against Ukraine and/or in Belarus in the coming weeks or months. The Russian Federation has positioned military forces around Ukraine’s border and near the border with Belarus able to initiate offensive operations on very short notice with very little warning. Russian officials and media outlets have been setting conditions in the information space to support such operations. This document is not intended as a forecast or an assessment of the likelihood of any such Russian activities, all of which are also consistent with Russian non-military lines of effort against Ukraine, Belarus, the United States, and NATO."
Reports from 2022
Reports from January to June of 2023
Daily Russian Offensive Campaign Assessments

Mapping Ukraine's Counteroffensive

Center for Strategic and International Studies
"Use the timeline to see how the force disposition and front line have changed over time."
Reuters
Zafra, M. & McClure, J. (2023, December 21). Four factors that stalled Ukraine's counteroffensive. Reuters.

Background

"THE MODERN HISTORY of Ukraine began with the efforts of the Ukrainian people to throw off Russian Bolshevik rule in the Revolution of 1917. Conquered by Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Ukrainians had never lost their zest for freedom. One of their heroes had been the Cossack Bohdan Kmehlnitsky, who had fought for Ukrainian freedom in the 17th century. Tragically, his Cossacks, in fighting for their own rights, savagely murdered thousands of innocent Jews in one of the first pogroms in East European or Russian history. The greatest account of the Ukrainian Cossack struggle for freedom was Taras Bulba, written by one of Russia’s greatest writers, Nikolai Gogol. Coincidentally, Gogol was born in the Ukraine in March 1809." Read more...

Murphy Jr., J. F. (2005). Ukraine. In R. Carlisle (Author), Encyclopedia of Politics. Sage Publications. https://search.credoreference.com/articles/Qm9va0FydGljbGU6OTg1MTA2?aid=256853

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