2023: the WAR of ATTRITION: Winter Fighting, Bakhmut, and Limits 2023 Counteroffensive in Ukraine

Bakhmut, Vuhledar, the counteroffensive and Avdiivka: the year the war became a contest of endurance. Second edition, revised and expanded, with new chapters and original maps. By 2023 the war of manoeuvre was over. Russia threw mobilised soldiers and Wagner convicts into Soledar and Bakhmut, and lost brigade after brigade in the fields outside Vuhledar. Ukraine prepared a counteroffensive with Western tanks and armoured vehicles, only to meet minefields, drones and deep defences in Zaporizhzhia. In between came the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the Wagner mutiny and the opening of a new Russian offensive at Avdiivka. Inside you will find - The winter strike campaign against Ukraine's power grid - Soledar and the long battle for Bakhmut - Vuhledar: anatomy of a Russian armoured disaster - Trenches, mines and drones: how attrition really works - The 2023 counteroffensive at Robotyne and why it stalled - Prigozhin's mutiny and the start of the battle for Avdiivka Book 5 of the Modern Warfare Explained series. Follows 2022 (Book 4) and continues in 2024-2025: The War of Exhaustion (Book 6).