Ukraine “repelled several Russian attacks along the line of contact in Donbass this week,” the UK Ministry of Defense said in its latest intelligence update on Sunday.
“Although Russia has made some territorial gains, Ukrainian resistance has been strong on all axes and has inflicted a significant cost on Russian forces,” the assessment continued, without clarifying whether the resistance was being led by Ukrainian armed forces from civilian groups.
The Defense Ministry also cited “low Russian morale and limited time to reconstitute, re-equip and reorganize forces from previous offensives” as the likely causes for Russia’s “combat effectiveness”.
Last Friday, Russia declared that the main objective of its invasion of Ukraine is to take “total control” over southern Ukraine and the eastern region of Donbass.
The announcement, which came from a senior military official, marked the first time since the start of the conflict that Russia has admitted it was struggling to establish a land corridor through Ukrainian territory linking Russia with the Crimea peninsula it annexed in 2014.
Source: CNN Brasil
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