Ukraine’s president warned this Saturday that Ukrainian forces fighting Russia on the country’s eastern front face a possible delay in their operations due to a lack of ammunition, which could exacerbate an already unfavorable situation.
“The situation is not good at the moment. We have no ammunition,” Volodymyr Zelensky said during an interview with the Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun, amid a stalemate in the fighting in the city of Bakhmut, one of the current epicenters of the conflict, where Russian and Ukrainian troops are paralyzed after weeks of exhaustion.
“There is no way to launch a counter-offensive now. Without tanks or artillery, there is no way to send soldiers to the front,” complained Zelensky, who visited the front this week.
British intelligence estimates released this Saturday say the stalemate in the fighting in Bakhmut may have prompted Moscow to take a new course in operations to reinforce captured positions in the vicinity of the city.
“Russia’s attack on Bakhmut has stopped, largely due to extreme attrition of Russian troops. Ukraine has also suffered massive losses,” the estimate, published on the social network Twitter, reveals.
The British spy agency adds that Russia appears to be concentrated in Avdiivka, about 50 kilometers south of the city, and on the Kreminna-Svatove axis, also about 50 kilometers away, but to the north, where Moscow “intends to stabilize its battle front”. .
Source: DN
