The Russian operation in Donbas, which is proceeding “slowly and unevenly” due to the harsh resistance it is showing the Ukrainian army, has been delayedbased on the schedule originally planned, a senior Pentagon official said.
“We believe that they (the Russians) are late in what they hoped to achieve in Donbass,” he told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“They are several days late,” he explained. “They are still far from uniting” the forces that entered Ukrainian territory from the Kharkiv region, north of Donbass, with those that came from the south. This was a goal of the Russian army to cut off the Ukrainian forces that have developed on the front line, around the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
“They are not promoted very quickly. “A few kilometers a day is the maximum they can do, because they are repulsed by the Ukrainian army,” the Pentagon official said.
According to this source, the Russian forces “They do not want to make the same mistakesIn Kyiv, where the phalanxes of the tanks were immobilized by the Ukrainian armed forces and received no logistical support.
“Artillery fire and air strikes on Ukrainian forces have not had the desired effect, because the Ukrainians are still resisting,” he said. “That’s why we believe their promotion has been slow and uneven for the last 24 hours,” he added.
At the same time, Germany is considering sending a large one long-range self-propelled guns in Ukraine, a security source told Reuters, confirming a report published in the Welt am Sonntag just days after Berlin’s decision to send heavy weapons to Kyiv for the first time.
The move follows threats from the Kremlin that Western arms deliveries to Ukraine pose a threat to the security of the European continent “and cause instability”.
The acquisition of anti-aircraft S-300 system “From partners” announced earlier on Friday the Ukrainian army while the war with Russia is raging. The system is already performing missions even mentioned.
“The anti-aircraft missile forces of the Southern Air Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces received an S-300 missile system from partners, which significantly strengthened the Ukrainian air defense in the south of the country,” it said.
The Russians have “colossal” losses in battle
At the same time, the adviser to the President of Ukraine, Oleksiy Arestovich, admitted that his country’s army had suffered heavy losses as Moscow forces, having failed to occupy the capital, redoubled their efforts to completely occupy the eastern part of the country. Donbass.
He said, however, that the losses to the Russian army were even worse. “We have serious losses, but the losses of the Russians are much greater. They have colossal losses,” he said.
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