On the heels of a major navy setback, new studies recommend that Russia has ceased plans to ship additional troops and items to Ukraine.
The replace emerged from the Common Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an official Fb publish on Monday. The publish stated elements embody the proliferation of Russian casualties and the massive variety of potential volunteers who’ve refused service, with translation offered by the Pravda information outlet.
“The Army Command of the Russian Federation suspends sending new, already shaped, items to the territory of Ukraine,” the Fb publish reads, as translated by Google. “The present state of affairs within the navy theatre and mistrust for high command has pressured a lot of volunteers to desert the prospect of fight service.
“The state of affairs is influenced by data on the precise variety of casualties, excluding losses from personal navy corporations and mobilized from briefly occupied territories. The state of affairs is getting worse due to the final perspective to [their] personal wounded. Particularly, in Russian hospitals, the diagnoses and nature of fight accidents are intentionally simplified, no time is given for rehabilitation to return troopers to the fight zone quicker.”
This report has not been verified by different sources.
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In response to the Ukrainian Pravda, the nation’s forces have killed round 300 Russian troopers during the last day, introduced down one airplane and destroyed one unmanned aerial craft. The entire variety of casualties for Russia is now approaching 53,000, the outlet studies.
The report from the Ukrainian navy comes on the heels of a serious victory for the nation, with its forces launching a profitable counteroffensive within the northeast Kharkiv area, which repelled Russian fighters from a number of key strategic areas. Russian troopers have reportedly fled so rapidly from these areas that many have opted to desert items of {hardware} and ammunition within the subject, permitting Ukrainian forces to grab them.
A Monday report from the assume tank, ISW, in Washington, D.C., famous that Russian forces had despatched extra troops south in response to a possible offensive in southern Kherson, which Ukrainian officers had beforehand mentioned. This, in impact, left its strains of protection in Kharkiv weak, permitting for Thursday’s shock assault.
“Russian troops possible withdrew from the realm in nice haste, and social media posts present deserted tanks and different heavy navy tools close to Izyum, which signifies that Russian troops failed to arrange a coherent retreat,” the ISW report said.
Newsweek has reached out to Russian officers for remark.
