That is according to a latest the U.K. Defense Ministry’s Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine.
The U.K. Defense Ministry noted that there has recently been an intensification of artillery attacks and presumably small-group assaults by Russian forces in Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts, the northern part of the frontline. However, Russian disinformation is complicating understanding of what is happening.
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According to the U.K. Defense Ministry’s Defense Intelligence, Russia has likely only achieved marginal gains, but its renewed activity in the north highlights its importance to the Kremlin, when it is concurrently facing significant pressure in the southern Zaporizhzhia sector.
"Russia’s Western Group of Forces is likely trying to advance back to the Oskil River in order to create a buffer zone around Luhansk Oblast, the possession of which Russia almost certainly considers one of its fundamental objectives of the war," the U.K. Defense Intelligence concludes.
Not sparing themselves and, of course, the enemy, the artillery of the 67th Mechanized Brigade (It was formed on the basis of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps) eliminates the enemies during fierce battles in the Luhansk direction
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