Some are being pulled back into Russia for maintenance or repair others have suffered heavy losses, and in some cases merged with other groups to form one, the Western official said. The Western official said Russia “is recognizing that it cannot pursue its operations on multiple axes simultaneously” and is trying to concentrate its forces, both in terms of logistics supply and firepower, on a more limited number of approaches.Īt the beginning of the war, the West estimated Russia had between 120-150 battalion tactical groups deployed around Ukraine, but about 20 of those are now no longer believed to be combat effective. Russia’s defense ministry said earlier that the first phase of its military operation in Ukraine was mostly complete and it would focus on completely “liberating” eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Soldiers taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces have told their captors they had been made to believe they would carry out exercises near the border of Ukraine, rather than engage in war. Russian forces have struggled with logistics supply and shortages of food during the first month of their invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian presidential spokesman Oleksiy Arestovych earlier named the lieutenant general as Yakov Ryazantsev, and said he had been killed at the Chernobaevka aerodrome outside the southern city of Kherson - where Russian forces have repeatedly suffered losses in their campaign to break out from the Crimean peninsula to the northwest. The Western official also confirmed Ukrainian reports that a lieutenant general commanding the 49th Combined Arms Army had died in the fighting, making him the seventh Russian general to be killed in combat since the invasion began.
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