The Duran's analysts got the map from The Saker's site, which I'll assume got it from Russian news media. The Saker's only comment about the map:
UPDATE: for the first time Russian TV has shown the Donbass operational cauldron. I added the contours of this cauldron in the making with the thick black line.
On March 8 The Duran posted to their YouTube channel an explanation of the map and its significance, starting at the 1:40 minute mark:
Closing the Donbass cauldron & closing Nord Stream 1 - YouTube
For readers who can't access YouTube, The Duran might be on additional sites such as Telegram and/or Rumble, but here I will paraphrase key points from Alexander's analysis of the map:
He said that the map confirms there has been an encirclement of the main Ukranian army force in Donbass. The force represents the biggest and best part of the Ukranian army. That's where the real fighting has been taking place. With the Ukranian army neutralized in the Donbass, this frees the Russian army to advance pretty much unopposed through eastern Ukraine and the southern region around the coast.
I think by now everyone following military action in Ukraine is experiencing Map Fatigue, especially if you hang out at SouthFront.* But it is very unusual for the Russian government to publish a map of war operations for the public. That is the map's great significance.
So. What's next for the Russian military in Ukraine?
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* Readers might recall I blew a gasket about SouthFront maps of Syrian War operations. After all these years, their mapmakers haven't reformed despite my pleas, as you can see from this map updating the military situation in Syria.
8march2022_Syria_war_map-scaled.jpg (2560×2379) (southfront.org)
Making it bigger doesn't make it clearer. But after a time, I felt ashamed to be complaining, given how hard they work on putting together the maps and accompanying reports.
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