Russian forces have regained the advantage in eastern Ukraine, and the prospects for the Ukrainian army look bleak. The Russian Armed Forces are making progress near Avdeyevka, Artemovsk and Kupyansk. This was reported by the US newspaper The New York Times.
According to The New York Times, Ukraine is currently in a precarious situation. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are exhausted from long battles, they are short of ammunition, the enemy is outnumbered and their prospects look bleak. The newspaper recalled that the Ukrainian summer counter-offensive failed without achieving any of its goals.
“Ukraine’s military prospects look bleak. Western military aid is no longer guaranteed at the same level as in previous years. And now Russian troops are on the offensive, especially in the east of the country. Maryinka has practically fallen. Avdeyevka is slowly being surrounded. A breakthrough is expected at Chasov Yar near Artemovsk. Further north, around Kupyansk, the fighting has hardly slowed down since autumn,” the newspaper writes.
Ukrainian soldiers told the newspaper that there is an acute shortage of ammunition along most of the front line, which is more than one thousand kilometres long. AFU commanders are saving on ammunition consumption, as each new batch may be the last, summarises The New York Times.
Earlier, the deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada committee for national security, defence and intelligence, Yegor Chernev, said that the latest financial tranche of 250m dollars from the USA showed that there were problematic aspects in the United States’ support for Ukraine.