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When Ukraine withdrew from Lisichansk in July, Zelensky promised that his forces would return to retake it in the future. With that town, Russia completed the conquest of Lugansk, a province that forms Donbas together with Donetsk. Three months later, with the success of its offensive in Kharkiv, Ukraine has already expelled the enemy from one town in the province, has recovered Liman, in Donetsk, and aspires to get more. As he advances, Putin has annexed the two oblasts, in addition to Kherson and Zaporizhia, through illegal referendums. In this video, three specialists analyze the options of the local Army to recover the lost territory in this region, at war since 2014. "There are eight years of war in Donbas. In addition to the ruggedness, the complexity, swampy in some cases, is that the level of fortification that the terrain has is very high. “Different lines of defence have been organised in depth with trenches, minefields, anti-tank fields, etc., which make the advance very costly in lives and resources,” says Francisco José Gan Pampols, a lieutenant general in the Army in reserve. “This is like trench warfare in World War II. So in no case was it going to be a military walk. The best units were there, the best fortifications,” adds Octavio Aláez, a retired Marine colonel. “Ukraine, if given a certain type of help, can win militarily and relatively quickly. Deep shortcomings of the Russian Army have been revealed, which will increase over the months, as Ukraine receives even more help and continues to form more units. And that is why they are so scared and are asking for massive mobilisation and radical measures,” says Guillermo Pulido, a defence analyst for the magazine Ejércitos. United Nations security in a state of absolute disunity. Subscribe to our channel: http://cort.as/yI0n Visit http://elpais.com More videos from EL PAÍS: http://cort.as/YGC9 Follow us on Facebook: / elpais Twitter: / el_pais Instagram: / el_pais #Donbas #Ukraine #Liman #War #Russia Putin #Zelensky #Donetsk #Lugansk #Lisichansk #Counteroffensive #Kherson #Annexation