Offensives in a sentence

All Soviet offensives started promisingly, but due either to the Soviets overextending their lines or stubborn defensive resistance, the Soviet offensives were stopped and repulsed.

Both sides are expected to mount new ground offensives come the spring, and Ukraine has been seeking hundreds of modern tanks in the hope of using them to break Russian defensive lines and recapture occupied territory in the south and east.

Depending on when Ukraine and Russia launch their next offensives (both dependent on weather), Ukraine could be fighting with only equipment they already have or a handful of pieces of new kit.

He said: “We expect them to conduct offensives in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, as well as possibly Zaporizhzhia but to defend in Kherson and Crimea, this is the number of men they will need for such a task.

In recent days, they said, they have been able to repel several Russian offensives.

Israel managed to push back all of the offensives, and secure even more land in the process – and so the chances of a two-state solution working started to seem even less likely.

Maintaining a steady flow of weapons to Kyiv will be critical in the war’s second year, especially with both sides planning spring offensives.

Since that time, al-Sadr’s followers have taken part in Iraqi military offensives against the Islamic State group in Tikrit and other cities and in rallies against government corruption.

The Force Commander expressed gratitude to the President of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, for his leadership and prioritisation of the offensives against Al-Shabaab.

The region was plunged into violence after the M23 rebel group relaunched its offensives in March 2022.

With an expected springtime Russian offensive looming, the tanks will also enable ’s forces to launch new offensives and curb casualties, three military commanders, including two in the army’s tank division, told The Associated Press.

An elderly Palestinian woman agrees that it is not the same as the previous aerial and ground offensives she has survived.

More than 36,170 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israel’s campaign of bombardment and offensives over the past eight months, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza.

Relentless military offensives have weakened smaller armed groups like the notoriously violent Abu Sayyaf group over the years, considerably reducing kidnappings, bombings and other attacks.

Tanks played a central role in both Russia’s initial and subsequent offensives.

The current advances are the Kremlin's biggest land offensives in the region since it unleashed terror in February 2022, when the war began.

The fighting escalated last October, when powerful armed ethnic militias joined with resistance forces to mount major new offensives against the military.

The man from Kettering doesn’t seem to possess an appetite for putting on charm offensives to curry favour but being the darling of the Gwladys Street is not the be all and end all when it comes to succeeding in the job.

The Somali government has also made substantial advancements in state-building and security restoration through military offensives against al-Shabaab.

The Ukrainians have been able to put up their two defensive lines and have then been able to frustrate further offensives from the Russian Federation," the EDF colonel explained.