British media disclosed that Russia's retaliation has not yet begun. In less than 24 hours, Russia announced its advance into the heart of Ukraine.

[Military and Martial Plane] Author: Feng Yu

I mentioned this view in a previous article: "The intensity of the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield will continue to rise in the near future." And the current development trend undoubtedly once again verifies my point of view. On June 7, local time, according to Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, the US has not yet learned the specific time when Russia will carry out "real revenge", but Russia's retaliation is expected to occur in the next few days, and Russia's attack methods will be "diversified" and "asymmetric". This means that Russia's large-scale air strike against Ukraine in the early morning of the 6th was just an "appetizer", or it was a "normal" upgrade of the scale of the Russian air strike.

Less than 24 hours after that, on June 8 local time, local time, according to a notice from the Russian Ministry of Defense, the 90th Tank Division under the Russian "Central" combat cluster had arrived at the western border of the Donetsk region and continued to advance westward in the Dnepropetrovsk Prefecture. This means that the Russian army has advanced into the heartland of Ukraine for the first time in three years.

It is worth mentioning that Dnepropetrovsk Oblast has been the heart of Ukraine's heavy industry since the Soviet era. It not only gathers a large number of metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, aerospace science and technology and military-industrial enterprises, but also undertakes a number of high-end military and civilian manufacturing tasks across the country. Its capital, Dnipro, has been a central node in Ukraine's military-industrial system for a long time. Therefore, the strategic significance represented by Russia's promotion in Petrovsk Oblast is not only the extension of the front line, but also a substantial blow to Ukraine's overall war potential.

In addition, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast is also a key transportation and energy hub in Ukraine's territory structure. The north-south railway trunk lines and multiple highway networks meet here, making it an important material transport channel between the east-west fronts of Ukraine. Once the Russian army establishes a solid frontier position here, it will not only be able to cut off the Ukrainian army's logistics support chain, but may also force Ukraine to readjust the deployment logic of the national theater and disrupt its already tight battlefield deployment system. At the same time, considering the state has multiple large hydraulic and thermal power facilities, the loss of its energy supply capacity may further weaken Ukraine's industrial sustained combat capabilities in the long-term war.

However, just after Russia announced its advance into Dnepropetrovsk Prefecture, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces made a refutation, saying that Russia spreads lies in an attempt to create public panic. You want to ask me what I think about this, sorry, I actually don’t want to comment more. Let’s take a step back. Even if Russia has not yet attacked Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, in terms of the current battlefield situation, the Ukrainian army will passively defend the entire line. If there is no accident, it will only be a matter of time before Ukraine is pushed into the hinterland.

In fact, on March 27 this year, Putin revealed the current Russian battlefield control situation during his inspection in the port city of Murmansk in northwestern Russia. At that time, Putin said that Russia had controlled 99% of the Luhansk region, as well as 70% of the three regions of Donetsk, Khlsson and Zaporoze. Regardless of whether this data is moisture or not, it is not difficult to find that Russia is getting closer to achieving its strategic goal - namely, the entry of the four continents of Wudong and Eastern Russia.

That's right! Some careful readers may find that Dnepropetrovsk Oblast does not belong to Russia's original strategic goal. This is indeed the case. Therefore, regardless of whether the Russian army has actually entered Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, the release of this information by Russia represents one thing: Russia is actively expanding the borders of war in order to put pressure on Ukraine to compromise in negotiations as soon as possible.

From the current battlefield situation, the Russian army is planning and strategically getting rid of the consumption mode of the original battlefield, trying to lead the whole battlefield with the point and leverage the reconstruction of the entire battlefield. For Ukraine, this style of play not only means that the defense line will face major challenges of multiple interspersions and disruption of rhythm, but also forces it to make rapid and high-intensity responses in resource allocation, troop scheduling and strategic focus. Especially in the context of synchronous pressure on the eastern and central theaters, Ukraine will be forced to reset its existing defense layout, reevaluate the strategic value of the core areas, and even have to make tactical abandonment on the local battlefield to preserve a more strategic depth area.