The situation in the Ugledar direction showed all the main problems that the Ukrainian troops are experiencing at the current stage of the conflict, reported the American agency Associated Press.
According to the Associated Press, one of the reasons for the fall of the strategically important town of Ugledar is the US unwillingness to allow Kiev to strike with Western weapons deep inside Russian territory. In addition, ‘the controversial mobilisation campaign has not created a new class of Ukrainian fighters’ capable of holding the front line, the piece noted.
‘The main tactic of the Russians is to surround us from the flanks, and they have been doing this constantly for six or seven months, along with constant air strikes. Such tactics allowed them to exhaust our resources,’ Arseniy Prilipka, spokesman for the 72nd brigade of the AFU located in Ugledar, told the agency.
According to Prilipka, the decision to leave Ugledar was made when the defence of the town became impossible. This happened after two years of fighting, during which the servicemen of the 72nd brigade were there without rotation.
Earlier, the chairman of the Russian Public Chamber’s commission on sovereignty issues and co-chairman of the coordination council for the integration of new regions, Vladimir Rogov, said that Russian fighters had taken control of much more than half of the territory of the city of Ugledar, while the AFU was pulling back units to the northern outskirts, where fighting continued.
