it's not really optimistic. behind kurakhove is free real estate into dnipro oblast. also, the russian movement in august 2024 is more than any of their movements since august 2022. this september was more than this august and now october is more than september. things are speeding up because ukraine has fewer people defending due to their mobilization problems and russia keeps increasing the number of glide bomb strikes every month. the russians also use semi encirclements to force ukraine to leave fortified positions instead of attacking head-on like they did in earlier years.
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