Over the past week, no significant territorial changes have occurred at the front. In the Donetsk region, Russian troops increased pressure on the city of Avdiivka, trying to encircle the city. Still, within a few days, the fighting there moved into the stage of small-scale infantry assaults and slowed down, just like on the Zaporizhzhia front.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have increased pressure on the Southern Front and are striving to reach the vicinity of Tokmak in the coming weeks to open up prospects for an offensive on the coast of the Azov Sea. An auxiliary attack across the river is also possible. Dnieper in the Kherson region and intensifying the offensive in the area of Bakhmut.

Preparations are underway for the meeting of the United States and Ukraine Presidents - Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky, which is scheduled for September 21 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The administration of US President D. Biden can use V. Zelensky’s visit to put pressure on Congress regarding the decision to allocate $24 billion in additional assistance to Ukraine (the White House did the same in December 2022).

The past century has become an arena for the struggle of three fundamental ideologies. These are, in a broad sense, liberalism, communism, and fascism - the three main political theories of the time. In 1991, with the collapse of the USSR, for some time it seemed to humanity that liberalism had won a complete victory. Fascism was defeated in 1945 following the Second World War, and the main communist regime in the world - the Soviet - collapsed under the weight of internal contradictions and economic problems.