The Russian military command has ramped up efforts to capture Kurakhove and Vuhledar in the Donetsk region to prevent the redeployment of Ukrainian forces to reinforce the defense of Pokrovsk, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). The report notes that recently Russian forces have intensified their offensive operations aimed at neutralizing a broad salient to the west and southwest of Donetsk, as well as advancing toward and along the H-15 (Donetsk – Zaporizhzhia) highway. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that coordinated Russian offensive operations from the …