The Russian navy recruits about 30,000 troopers per 30 days to maintain its all-out battle on Ukraine, in keeping with British intelligence launched on Saturday, as Moscow’s forces focused Ukrainian infrastructure for one more consecutive night time.
“Russia maintains a significant quantitative advantage in the conflict, overmatching Ukraine in munitions and equipment numbers,” the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in London stated in its day by day intelligence replace on the battle unleashed by the Kremlin greater than two years in the past.
“[Russia] is likely recruiting approximately 30,000 additional personnel a month and can highly likely continue to absorb losses and continue attacks aimed at wearing down Ukrainian forces,” the assertion printed on X, previously Twitter, continued.
According to British intelligence, Russian forces have been in a position to construct on the current seize of the japanese city of Avdiivka, sustaining “a gradual advance” west of the city.
“In late March 2024 they almost certainly took control of two villages – Tonenke and Orlivka – and are continuing to contest others in the area.
“Russia has continued assaults alongside a number of different factors on the entrance line however has made little progress in current weeks.”
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022, Kiev’s forces were able to repel some of its initial advances and even regained some territories.
However, Ukraine is now at a crucial point in the war amid reports of ammunition shortages and difficulty in recruiting new soldiers for frontline operations. Morale was dented in February when the industrial town of Avdiivka fell to the Russians after a long and devastating battle.
Meanwhile, after employing the same tactics during the war’s first winter, Russia has recently intensified its attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure, hoping to demoralize Ukrainians.
Infrastructure was hit again in the central Ukrainian region of Poltava during overnight attacks by Russian forces, the Ukrainian military administration reported on Saturday.
The Ukrainian Air Force said nine of 12 aerial drones sent over by the Russians had been intercepted.
Apart from the drones, Russian forces also launched four S-300 and S-400 missiles. Both are designed as anti-aircraft missiles but have been converted to hit surface targets.
No casualties were initially reported.
Kharkiv close to the Russian border in the north-east has suffered repeated power cuts. On Saturday, the state-owned Centrenergo energy company reported that a power and heating plant had largely been destroyed in an attack on March 22.
Further emergency power cuts were reported from several Ukrainian regions on Saturday evening. Electricity supplier DTEK and regional authorities reported bottlenecks in Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Poltava.
In Kiev, President Volodymyr Zelensky, in the midst of Ukraine’s current difficult military situation, dismissed several advisers, including his assistant Serhiy Shefir, who had held the post since 2019, according to a decree published on Saturday.
A press spokesman justified the dismissals with an “optimization of personnel” within the presidential workplace, Ukrainian media reported.
Zelensky has changed some high-ranking officers a number of occasions in current months.
A specific stir was prompted in February when the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, needed to vacate his submit and hand it over to Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Source: www.anews.com.tr