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A lot of writers and commentors are arguing over whether the slow Ukrainian advance is stalled or still slowly moving. Or over whether the word stalemate implies that no further gain is possible, so does it apply here? But allow one more writer to weigh in, not on the meaning of stalemate, but why this isn't one by any definition.\n\nUkraine has made huge, strategic gains that will serve it well next year. In just the nearly six months since the counteroffensive started, Ukraine heavily damaged the Kerch Bridge serving Crimea, precipitated a coup attempt, put increased pressure on the Russian landbridge, forced the Black Sea Fleet east, killed strategic leaders, and forced Russia to deploy its most mobile forces on defense, making it unlikely Russia will have many available for its own offensive.\n\nAnd it did all of this while trading forces at near parity. That's a rare accomplishment since armies are more vulnerable on offense than defense.\n\nSo, yes, the lines on the map haven't moved much. But wars aren't won on maps. And Ukraine has done some brilliant work on the ground to set conditions for next year.\n\nLet's look at these developments over the last 25 weeks.\n\nThe start of the offensive: June and July\n\nWe'll go over these fairly fast, since they represent the start of the offensive and so may be too early to count for most detractors to count in the stalemate conversation.\n\nBut it's important to remember that the offensive started June 4. In June and July, the biggest developments were the failed Prigohzin Coup in June and the crippling of the Kerch Bridge by a drone strike in July. \n\n\t\t\t\t\tThis video grab taken from a rimea24TV footage on July 17, 2023 shows the damaged Kerch bridge -- linking Crimea to Russia -- which was heavily damaged following an attack. Russia on July 17, 2023, said a Ukrainian attack on the bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland killed a civilian couple and wounded their child. Moscow said two drones had hit the bridge in the early hours and blamed \"the Kyiv regime.\" (Photo by -/Crimea24TV/AFP via Getty Images)\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\nWhile Ukraine, obviously, did not lead the coup attempt, Yevgeny Prigozhin cited his losses on the battlefield and materiel shortages as motivation. Ukraine should see the coup as a result of their victories and pressure. The coup failed to topple Putin, but it weakened the regime. And it forced Putin to sideline Wagner and then assimilate what he could of it.\n\nThe next month, Ukraine once again struck the Kerch Bridge, the key artery linking Russia to Crimea. Russia quickly allowed some light traffic to cross the bridge in an attempt to downplay the signifigance. But satellite photos in September show them continuing repairs. And the bridge is still regularly closed to traffic with no official explanation. It is likely that the July attack still hampers Russian resupply to forces from Crimea to Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts.\n\nAnd those forces are especially vulnerable, since they only get major supply from across the Kerch Bridge and the \"land bridge.\"\n\nAugust and September: The land bridge and Black Sea Fleet\n\nYeah, about that land bridge. The vaunted Russian land bridge represented a strategic victory for Russia during the invasion. While it failed to take Kyiv, the Russian military did capture vast swaths of eastern Ukraine in early 2022. That created a connection between its forces in Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimea.\n\nThat land bridge is essential for Russian defenders in Zaporizhia and everywhere south of it. Russia sucks at getting resupply across the Sea of Azov. If the land bridge is severed, Russian forces will have to resupply solely through the damaged Kerch Bridge, like breathing through a straw.\n\nAnd in August, Ukraine took Robotyne. That puts additional pressure on the land bridge and puts its forces within HIMARS range of the Sea of Azov (barely). Ukraine's movement across the terrain, yes, did freeze after that. It failed to take Tokmak or Polohy, either of which would have robbed Russia of aviation bases.\n\nBut, importantly, Russia had to redeploy forces to prevent the Ukrainian salient from becoming a rout. Russia reportedly deployed as many as 10,000 paratroopers to stop the Ukrainian advance. \n\nRussia has tried to rebuild the VDV since the stunning losses during the invasion. But the few paratroopers it still has are exhausted from defending the land bridge. It is highly unlikely it can use them anywhere else anytime soon. (That partially explains why Russia appears to be running low on men at Adiivka only a month into its assault.)\n\nMeanwhile, on the diplomatic front, Ukraine earned promises of F-16s in August as well, with more promises coming in September.\n\nFinally, Ukraine managed two stunning attacks on the Black Sea Fleet, killing 33 officers and crippling a landing ship and a submarine.\n\nMost recently: October and November\n\nThose September strikes led to a \"functional retreat\" of the Black Sea Fleet east to Novorossiysk in October, according the the U.K. Armed Forces. But that didn't stop the strikes, as Ukraine hit Crimea again in November and damaged three ships over two strikes. And the U.K. thinks the fleet will become less effective at long-range strikes until it can re-build Novorossiysk to take over the mission of loading cruise missiles from Sevastapol.\n\n\t\t\t\t\tDONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 26: Ukrainian soldiers are seen in a trench in their fighting position in the direction of Gorlivka, as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n(When Russia's fleet is retreating, it really doesn't seem like the \"Ukraine stalemate,\" just saying.)\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine finally got ATACMS missiles, greatly increasing the range of their HIMARS launchers. And it debuted the weapon in stunning fashion, knocking out 14 Russian helicopters in Luhansk and Berdyansk.\n\nThen, Ukraine managed to force a crossing over the Dnipro River, establishing what appears to be a permanent foothold on the \"left bank.\" (That's the southern bank, for those of us unaccustomed to having to imagine the flow of a river to orient ourselves on the map.) The advance promises to relieve pressure on Kherson. And, ideally, as more of the river is liberated it will give Ukraine a logistics line.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine has been steadily degrading Russian air defenses over the last six months. So much so that the U.K. Ministry of Defence believes Russia is moving air defense systems from the Kaliningrad Enclave to Ukraine. That would mean that Russia is accepting risk at one of its most important bases because it can't otherwise protect assets in Ukraine. \n\nSo it's not a Russian-Ukraine stalemate\n\nWe get it. The map lines are just about where they were this summer. \n\nBut Ukraine spent the last six months weakening Russian forces in key areas. \n\nRussian logistics are threatened, especially in the south. Ukraine has new weapons and promises of more, like F-16s, that could enable greater offensive power. Russian air defenses are weaker by the day. And the Black Sea Fleet, formerly a major offensive force for Russia, is now hiding to the east. And Russia had to spend its own offensive buildup to secure its logistics, hampering its own offensives.\n\nRemember, Allied forces set the conditions for D-Day for over a year before launching the invasion. (Army University Press has a great new video on the long planning and preparation.) \n\nMilitary operations are not always about seizing territory. Sometimes they're about breaking the enemy. And Ukraine is breaking Russia. There is not, right now, a Ukraine stalemate.\n\nLogan Nye was an Army journalist and paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. Now, he鈥檚 a freelance writer and live-streamer. 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But wars aren't won on maps. Ukraine has done some brilliant work on the ground to set conditions for next year.</div> <div class="flex"> <div class="author-avatar-wrapper basis-16 lg:hidden"> <img fetchpriority="high" class="author-avatar w-12 h-12 rounded-full object-cover border-2 border-accent-900" src="https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-70.webp?quality=85&w=102&h=102&crop=1" srcset="https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-70.webp 210w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-70.webp?w=150&h=150 150w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-70.webp?w=200&h=200 200w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-70.webp?w=102&h=102 102w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-70.webp?w=192&h=192 192w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-70.webp?w=50&h=50 50w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/img-70.webp?w=96&h=96 96w" 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argument going on about whether Ukraine is currently in a stalemate with Russia. A lot of writers and commentors are arguing over whether the slow Ukrainian advance is stalled or<a href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/military-news/ukraine-anaconda-plan-civil-war/"> still slowly moving.</a> Or over whether the word stalemate implies that no further gain is possible, so does it apply here? But allow one more writer to weigh in, not on the meaning of stalemate, but why this isn’t one by any definition.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Ukraine has made huge, strategic gains that will serve it well next year. In just the nearly six months since the counteroffensive started, Ukraine heavily damaged the Kerch Bridge serving Crimea, precipitated a coup attempt, put increased pressure on the Russian landbridge, forced the Black Sea Fleet east, killed strategic leaders, and forced Russia to deploy its most mobile forces on defense, making it unlikely Russia will have many available for its own offensive.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">And it did all of this while trading forces at near parity. That’s a rare accomplishment since armies are more vulnerable on offense than defense.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">So, yes, the lines on the map haven’t moved much. But wars aren’t won on maps. And Ukraine has done some brilliant work on the ground to set conditions for next year.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Let’s look at these developments over the last 25 weeks.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-start-of-the-offensive-june-and-july">The start of the offensive: June and July</h2> <p class="article-paragraph skip">We’ll go over these fairly fast, since they represent the start of the offensive and so may be too early to count for most detractors to count in the stalemate conversation.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">But it’s important to remember that the offensive started June 4. In June and July, the biggest developments were the failed Prigohzin Coup in June and the crippling of the Kerch Bridge by a drone strike in July. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="594" height="329" loading="lazy" src="https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-133308" srcset="https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg 594w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=300&h=166 300w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=361&h=200 361w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=390&h=216 390w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=280&h=155 280w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=289&h=160 289w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=370&h=205 370w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=308&h=171 308w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=50&h=28 50w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1537370833.jpg?w=150&h=83 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">This video grab taken from a rimea24TV footage on July 17, 2023 shows the damaged Kerch bridge — linking Crimea to Russia — which was heavily damaged following an attack. Russia on July 17, 2023, said a Ukrainian attack on the bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland killed a civilian couple and wounded their child. Moscow said two drones had hit the bridge in the early hours and blamed “the Kyiv regime.” (Photo by -/Crimea24TV/AFP via Getty Images)</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">While Ukraine, obviously, did not lead the coup attempt, Yevgeny Prigozhin cited his losses on the battlefield and materiel shortages as motivation. Ukraine should see the coup as a result of their victories and pressure. The coup failed to topple Putin, but it weakened the regime. And it forced Putin to sideline Wagner and then assimilate what he could of it.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The next month, Ukraine once again struck the Kerch Bridge, the key artery linking Russia to Crimea. Russia quickly allowed some light traffic to cross the bridge in an attempt to downplay the signifigance. But <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.newsweek.com/satellite-photos-images-kerch-bridge-damage-repair-fix-crimea-1824964" target="_blank">satellite photos in September</a> show them continuing repairs. And the bridge is still regularly closed to traffic with no official explanation. It is likely that the July attack <em>still</em> hampers Russian resupply to forces from Crimea to Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">And those forces are especially vulnerable, since they only get major supply from across the Kerch Bridge and the “land bridge.”</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-august-and-september-the-land-bridge-and-black-sea-fleet">August and September: The land bridge and Black Sea Fleet</h2> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Yeah, about that land bridge. The vaunted Russian land bridge represented a strategic victory for Russia during the invasion. While it failed to take Kyiv, the Russian military did capture vast swaths of eastern Ukraine in early 2022. That created a connection between its forces in Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimea.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">That land bridge is essential for Russian defenders in Zaporizhia and everywhere south of it. Russia sucks at getting resupply across the Sea of Azov. If the land bridge is severed, Russian forces will have to resupply solely through the damaged Kerch Bridge, like breathing through a straw.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">And in August, <a href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/military-news/robotyne-liberation-allows-land-bridge-sever-crimea/">Ukraine took Robotyne</a>. That puts additional pressure on the land bridge and puts its forces within HIMARS range of the Sea of Azov (barely). Ukraine’s movement across the terrain, yes, did freeze after that. It failed to take Tokmak or Polohy, either of which would have robbed Russia of aviation bases.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">But, importantly, Russia had to redeploy forces to prevent the Ukrainian salient from becoming a rout. Russia reportedly <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-elite-paratroopers-deployed-as-infantry-to-augment-over-stretched-forces-50354219.html" target="_blank">deployed as many as 10,000 paratroopers to stop the Ukrainian advance</a>. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Russia has tried to rebuild the VDV since the stunning losses during the invasion. But the few paratroopers it still has are exhausted from defending the land bridge. It is highly unlikely it can use them anywhere else anytime soon. (That partially explains why <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-committing-few-troops-avdiivka-battle-2023-11-22/" target="_blank">Russia appears to be running low on men at Adiivka only a month into its assault</a>.)</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Meanwhile, on the diplomatic front, Ukraine <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-approves-sending-f-16s-ukraine-denmark-netherlands-2023-08-17/" target="_blank">earned promises of F-16s in August as well</a>, with more promises coming in September.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Finally, Ukraine managed two stunning attacks on the Black Sea Fleet, killing 33 officers and crippling a landing ship and a submarine.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-most-recently-october-and-november">Most recently: October and November</h2> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Those September <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://news.usni.org/2023/11/15/a-brief-summary-of-the-battle-of-the-black-sea" target="_blank">strikes led to a “functional retreat” of the Black Sea Fleet east to Novorossiysk in October</a>, according the the U.K. Armed Forces. But that didn’t stop the strikes, as Ukraine hit Crimea again in November and damaged three ships over two strikes. And the U.K. thinks the fleet will <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1728332692964430337" target="_blank">become less effective at long-range strikes until it can re-build Novorossiysk to take over the mission of loading cruise missiles</a> from Sevastapol.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="594" height="396" loading="lazy" src="https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-133310" srcset="https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg 594w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?w=324&h=216 324w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?w=280&h=187 280w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?w=289&h=193 289w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?w=370&h=247 370w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?w=308&h=205 308w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?w=50&h=33 50w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/27/GettyImages-1803514962.jpg?w=150&h=100 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">DONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE – NOVEMBER 26: Ukrainian soldiers are seen in a trench in their fighting position in the direction of Gorlivka, as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">(When Russia’s fleet is retreating, it really doesn’t seem like the “Ukraine stalemate,” just saying.)</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Meanwhile, Ukraine finally got <a href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/tactical/atacms-ukraine-land-bridge-robotyne/">ATACMS </a>missiles, greatly increasing the range of their HIMARS launchers. And it debuted the weapon in stunning fashion, <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4267375-russian-helicopters-lost-to-us-atacms-missiles-ukraine/" target="_blank">knocking out 14 Russian helicopters in Luhansk and Berdyansk</a>.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Then, Ukraine managed to force a crossing over the Dnipro River, establishing what appears to be a permanent foothold on the “left bank.” (That’s the southern bank, for those of us unaccustomed to having to imagine the flow of a river to orient ourselves on the map.) The <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/24/world/ukraine-russia-dnipro-river-intl-hnk-dst/index.html" target="_blank">advance promises to relieve pressure on Kherson</a>. And, ideally, as more of the river is liberated it will give Ukraine a logistics line.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Meanwhile, Ukraine has been steadily degrading Russian air defenses over the last six months. So much so that the <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1728719618317910451" target="_blank">U.K. Ministry of Defence believes Russia is moving air defense systems from the Kaliningrad Enclave to Ukraine</a>. That would mean that Russia is accepting risk at one of its most important bases because it can’t otherwise protect assets in Ukraine. </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-so-it-s-not-a-russian-ukraine-stalemate">So it’s not a Russian-Ukraine stalemate</h2> <p class="article-paragraph skip">We get it. The map lines are just about where they were this summer. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">But Ukraine spent the last six months weakening Russian forces in key areas. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Russian logistics are threatened, especially in the south. Ukraine has new weapons and promises of more, like F-16s, that could enable greater offensive power. Russian air defenses are weaker by the day. And the Black Sea Fleet, formerly a major offensive force for Russia, is now hiding to the east. And Russia had to spend its own offensive buildup to secure its logistics, hampering its own offensives.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Remember, Allied forces set the conditions for D-Day for over a year before launching the invasion. (Army University Press <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM9LSEtEPso" target="_blank">has a great new video on the long planning and preparation</a>.) </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Military operations are not always about seizing territory. Sometimes they’re about breaking the enemy. And Ukraine is breaking Russia. There is not, right now, a Ukraine stalemate.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip"><em>Logan Nye was an Army journalist and paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. Now, he鈥檚 a freelance writer and live-streamer. 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