The US think tank made the assessment in its latest report on the war in Ukraine, published on Sunday night.
"Ukraine appears to be intensifying attacks against Russian military, logistics, and other high-profile assets in rear areas in occupied Ukraine and Russia," the ISW reported.
On Saturday, Ukrainian partisans attacked a Russian military headquarters in the occupied port of Melitopol, in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, killing at least three Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and Rosgvardia officers, according to the military intelligence agency in Kyiv.
The announcement came after a Ukrainian partisan attack against a former Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) People’s Militia head on November 8; strikes against a Russian military base in occupied Skadovsk, Kherson province, and Black Sea Fleet assets in Crimea on November 9; and three rear-area strikes and partisan attacks in Russia on November 11, the ISW noted.
Ukrainian troops have carried out a campaign of strikes against occupied Crimea since the summer, the US think tank added.
Ukrainie continues counteroffensive against Russia
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continued their counteroffensive against Russia's invading army in the eastern Donetsk region and in Zaporizhzhia, the General Staff in Kyiv reported on Monday morning.
In the direction of the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian troops are keeping up their push, inflicting losses in manpower and military hardware on the Russian army and consolidating their new positions, according to Ukraine's military command.
In the direction of the port of Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian forces are also continuing their counteroffensive, eroding Russia's manpower and equipment and "exhausting the enemy along the entire frontline," officials in Kyiv said.
Overall, Ukrainian and Russian troops on Sunday engaged in 69 frontline clashes, according to Ukraine's General Staff.
As part of its latest counteroffensive against Russia, Ukraine is pushing through Zaporizhzhia in the southeast, in a bid to reach the port of Melitopol on the Sea of Azov, as well as aiming to retake Bakhmut in the east, among other objectives.
Monday is day 628 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
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Source: Espreso TV, ISW, General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
