'And in fact, it’s increasingly looking like a stealth offensive has already begun. Today again there was news of major breakthroughs [for the Russians] in the Kremennaya area. And what’s more, is we’re seeing signs of major increases in Russian aerospace operations. […] from the Kremennaya area, Russian attack choppers of every sort, and planes, are visibly providing CAS to the advancing troops with a density of airpower we haven’t seen since the early days.'
'Further, there are increasing intermittent missile strikes. Whereas before, Russia would wait a week or two to launch one large grouping of strikes, now we are getting smaller pinpoint doses every day/night.'
'And the Sumy/Kharkov regions continue to be hammered by artillery from the Russian border for the first time in half a year. Again last night powerful strikes on Sumy were reported, which suggests ‘softening up’ operations.'