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The deputy commander of the Ukrainian military intelligence, Vadym Skibicky, said his words in an interview for The Economist weeklywhich was according to Politico “unusually pessimistic for a senior Kyiv official”.
According to Skibicky, the fall of the Ukrainian city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, which is constantly facing attacks by the Russian army, is “probably only a matter of time”. He stated that the city would quite possibly “fall like Avdijivka, which the Russians bombed to destruction in February.” “Of course not today or tomorrow, but everything depends on our reserves and supplies,” he added.
According to Skibicky, the Russians also plan to attack the areas from which they previously retreated, and are thus observing Sumy and Kharkiv. However, according to the Ukrainian Major General, they still do not have enough people for such a large offensive.
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Ukrainians, on the other hand, have to face problems and a lack of weapons. “Our problem is very simple: We have no weapons. They always knew that April and May would be a difficult period for us,” he pointed out. According to him, the Russian army is no longer in such chaos as in 2022, and compared to before, they already function as “one body, with a clear plan and under a unified command.”
The Economist writes that the deputy commander of Ukraine’s military intelligence assesses the situation as the most complicated since the first days of the Russian invasion and believes that “it will get worse.”
“He predicts that Russia will first proceed with its plan to ‘liberate’ all of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, a task unchanged from 2022. He says the Russian order to ‘do something’ came out in time for the pompous Victory Day in Moscow on May 9, or, failing that, before Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing a week later. The speed and success of the advance will determine when and where the Russians will strike next,” the weekly summarizes the words of the Ukrainian major general.
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Russian occupation of Časiv Jaru by according to an earlier Politico article meant that the remaining Ukrainian cities in the Donetsk region would also be threatened. “If the Russian occupiers succeed in conquering this city, they will have the opportunity to launch an offensive on Kostiantynivka, Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk and Slovyansk,” the spokesman of the Ukrainian army, Lt. Col. Nazar Voloshin, said earlier, adding that ten and hundreds of thousands of other Ukrainian cities that make up Ukraine’s “last bastion in the Donetsk region”
Al Jazeera station points outthat underarmed and poorly supplied Ukrainian forces have been “losing ground” in the eastern Donetsk region in recent weeks.
According to the station, the Russians stepped up their attacks ahead of the arrival of US military aid, which includes anti-tank missiles and 155 mm grenades, which may help Ukraine end its current “ammunition hunger”. “For ten shots from their side, we respond with one shot,” one of the soldiers from the Donetsk region summed up the situation to Al Jazeera.
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Ukraine (War in Ukraine)
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Reports from the battlefield are difficult to verify in real time, regardless of whether they come from any side of the conflict. Both warring parties, for understandable reasons, may release completely or partially false (misleading) information.
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author: Radek Kotas
