After successes in the Donbass, Russia is finding it difficult to advance further, according to the British military intelligence service. There are also actual signs of a redeployment of Russian troops in southern Ukraine. Apparently, weaknesses in the front were identified there.
According to British military intelligence, Russia is currently making little progress in eastern Ukraine. The attack in the vicinity of Bakhmut in Donbass made little progress, it said. The British Ministry of Defense quoted the latest intelligence report as saying that Russian troops had continued to carry out tactical attacks on the "Bakhmut Axis" in the past four days. But the Russian troops were making slow progress.
The British also see signs of a redeployment of Russian troops from eastern to southern Ukraine. According to the Defense Ministry, Russia has apparently identified the front in the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia as a weak point where reinforcements are needed. Previously, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj had reported in his video address on Monday night that Russian troops were being moved south.
Shortly after the war began, Russia occupied large areas in southern Ukraine. Recently, however, Ukrainian troops had started counteroffensives there and put the Russian armed forces under pressure, also thanks to the artillery supplied by the West. "Russia is likely to adjust the operational design of its Donbass offensive after failing to make a decisive operational breakthrough under the plan pursued since April," it said. Russia is likely to redeploy a significant number of its armed forces from the northern Donbass sector to southern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that Russian troops were resuming local attacks in eastern Ukraine. Accordingly, the conditions are to be created to advance from Isjum to the north-west and south-west. In addition, efforts in the Kharkiv region are to be stepped up and the city of the same name is to be attacked again.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's military leadership reported that Russia has lost more than 41,000 soldiers in combat since the start of its invasion. In addition, there were more than 4,000 infantry fighting vehicles and almost 1,800 tanks. The information cannot be independently verified. The military experts around Stijn Mitzer assume in their list of significantly lower numbers of lost combat equipment on the part of the Russian army. Last week, CNN, citing members of the US House of Representatives, reported that more than 75,000 Russians had been either killed or injured in Ukraine.
