Why Putin’s advances around ‘war cauldron’ cities are a SHAM as The Sun dives deep into Ukraine’s front line fightback

VLADIMIR Putin’s advances around “war cauldron” cities are a failing, The Sun has revealed as it dives deep in Ukraine’s brave front line fightback.

In the latest episode of Battle Plans Exposed, former intelligence officer and Nato planner Philip Ingram delves into Ukrainian defence operations as well as Russia’s botched attacks.

The military expert details a critical analysis of Putin’s flawed advances in the Donbas region – and why they have all been destined to fail.

He outlines “war cauldron” cities, which the Russian tyrant has been trying to capture as part of his bloody invasion.

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And he also explains why Putin’s sudden breakthrough into Ukraine just before the summit with Donald Trump in Alaska completely fell apart.

The episode includes a deep dive on Putin’s demands, compared to what the reality on the front line is.

And Ingram also takes a comprehensive look at how Ukraine’s military restructuring has helped bolster its counter-attacks

He details Operation Desert Storm as a case study, in order to get a better grasp of why the new structure is so crucial.

Ukraine‘s new Flamingo Missile, which is said to be able to reach Moscow over 3,000km away, is also analysed as part of the brand new episode.

It comes as Putin continues to launch attacks on the war-torn country, despite a high-stakes meeting with the US President over one week ago.

Following the historical summit, Trump then met with European allies including Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House where they boasted significant progress in peace talks.

The Don even made a call to Putin halfway through his talks with Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni and other world leaders.

Last weekend, US Vice President JD Vance claimed that Russia had abandoned its ambitions to control Ukraine, counting it was a key concession win.

He remains confident Trump will broker an end to the fighting.

It also came as Washington was blocking Ukraine from firing long-range missiles into Russia.

The Pentagon introduced a review mechanism in late spring that is effectively preventing Kyiv from striking targets in Russian territory, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

This has stopped Kyiv benefitting from the full firepower of US Atacms and British Storm Shadows.

President Biden gave the greenlight for Ukraine to use the Atacms back in November – and Storm Shadows were fired into Russia for the first time that same month.

Two US officials told the paper that a Ukrainian request to use Atacms had already been rejected on at least one occasion.

Trump, meanwhile, has restated the two-week timeframe for reaching a deal.

He said on Friday: “I think over the next two weeks, we’re going to find out which way it’s going to go.

Since the Alaska summit between Trump and Putin, a massive Russian blitz in Ukraine seriously damaged an American factory.

Drones and missiles rained down on the electronics factory in western Ukraine on Thursday night – which President Zelensky insisted was deliberate.

Vance said he “doesn’t like” it and Trump said he is “not happy” – but the attack doesn’t appear to have derailed US commitment to negotiating.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces claim to have killed three Russian perpetrators of the Bucha massacre in a slew of revenge bombings on the country’s Independence Day on Saturday.

Ukraine’s military intelligence unit GUR said three Russian soldiers dubbed “Butchers of Bucha” were wiped out in surgical bombings in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.

They were targeted in the Luhansk region while operating as a mobile air defence group to cover a Russian military-repair base.

Bucha is a town close to Kyiv where Russian troops were accused of perpetrating appalling war crimes as they sought to storm Kyiv in 2022.