While peace talks are dominated by uncertainty, the stage is set for new decisive confrontations of the armies on the front line. President Volodymyr Zelensky has recently declared that Russia is preparing for new large-scale offensives on the border with the Sumi and Kharkiv regions, as reported by Kyiv Independent in a comprehensive analysis of current and future developments on the front.
In an unprecedented way since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, the daily grind on the front line has taken a backseat to the front page news around the world.
Instead, the efforts of American President Donald Trump to negotiate peace on the global stage dominate the headlines.
While the world is busy reacting to the new proposed agreement on mineral resources or the new round of peace talks led by the US, Russian forces continue their attacks along the entire front line.
In March, Russian forces nearly drove out the last Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region.
Since then, fighting has continued along the border areas, but despite a costly and sometimes chaotic retreat, Ukrainian units in the area have taken up an active defense and prevented a major breakthrough in the Sumi border region of Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces have slowed the Russian advance on Ukrainian territory, with monitoring group DeepState showing that Russian gains in March 2025 are the lowest since last June.
Meanwhile, in the southern Donetsk region, which was the main hot spot for battles since the fall of Avdiivka last year, the army reports a new explosion of Russian attacks.
Ukrainians have slowed the Russian offensive in the east.
In the summer and fall of 2024, Russia occupied more and more Ukrainian land, reaching its peak in November when Russian forces made rapid progress northwest of the city of Vuhledar in the Donetsk region, turning Kurakhove’s defense into a largely unfavorable pocket, which in turn led to difficult and chaotic retreats of units from there.
At the beginning of the year, failing to penetrate Pokrovsk in a frontal assault due to a well-prepared Ukrainian defense, Russian forces attempted to surround Pokrovsk and the neighboring Myrnohrad with wide pincers on the eastern and western flanks, coming within five kilometers of the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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