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The Russian offensive campaign will culminate in September 2026; Russian forces will shift to mechanized breakthrough tactics by October, reinforcing roughly 200-strong assault units with columns of about 50 armoured vehicles; and Russia will try to seize at least one Fortress Belt settlement by the end of its autumn campaign.
A Ukrainian corps commander forecasting an adversary he does not control, said on September 11. He separately said about 1,200 Rubikon drone crews, a third of that unit, are in the Dobropillya direction — a Ukrainian claim about Russian dispositions, not geolocated, and not placed on the map.