The pace of Russia's offensive in Ukraine has picked up in recent weeks, but remains slow and consistent with positional warfare rather than rapid mechanized maneuvering - underscoring how broadly Russian progress has stalled after more than two years and half a war.
This is stated in the daily analysis of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Ukrainian forces have recently advanced into Toretsk, and Russian forces have advanced near Kupyansk, Pokrovsk, Kurakhovo and southwest of the city of Donetsk.
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) continues to rely on Russian prisoners to replace depleted Russian frontline units.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to use Russia's annual nuclear deterrent exercise to continue conducting information operations aimed at influencing Western decision-making.
Recent Russian studies indicate that over the past year, Russian domestic support for local government structures has declined somewhat, most likely in response to increased efforts to generate cryptomobilization forces at the regional level.
Russian officials and military bloggers are conducting information operations that falsely portray the Georgian opposition's peaceful and legitimate challenges to the October 26 parliamentary election results as a Western- and Ukraine-sponsored illegal coup d'état.
Georgian protests were peaceful and legal - a far cry from Russian claims of an illegal coup.
These concerted Russian efforts to groundlessly discredit Georgia's pro-Western opposition and civil society are part of the Kremlin's general tactic to portray the legitimate and legitimate concerns of pro-Western political actors in the post-Soviet space as illegitimate and violent.