UK Defence Intelligence has stated that the release of footage of the Russian Defence Minister’s visit to Ukraine was a response to the visit to the front line by Yevgeny Prigozhin, Head of Wagner Group PMC.
Source: European Pravda; UK Defence In…
Western intelligence estimates Russia’s losses in recent months in the battles for the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, at 20,000-30,000 mercenaries from the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC); about a third of them may be dead.
Source: This w…
Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has said that he came under fire while visiting a position of the 155th Separate Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces near Vuhledar, Donetsk Oblast.
Source: Solovyov, on the air of his program on Russia-1 TV…
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces states that a conflict is possible among the Russian military top leadership over their significant losses and lack of success in the combat zone.
Source: General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces report …
Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), having analysed the situation, came to the conclusion that Russian troops will not be able to encircle Bakhmut in the near future.
Source: ISW
Details: Russian forces appear to have secured a suffic…
Russia has lost a large-scale tank battle for Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, getting ambushed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine — just as it did during the attack when using tank convoys at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Source: The New York Time
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The Russian command has sent a unit of the 136th Brigade, which had been created for the war against Chechen Republic of Ichkeria [in the 1990s], to the Vuhledar front in Ukraine.
Source: Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyi, spokesman for the joint press office of…
On Sunday, the Russian forces tried to conduct unsuccessful offensive actions on Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Shakhtarsk fronts.
Source: General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces on Facebook
Details: Over the course of the day, Russian…
UK intelligence, using the example of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade of Russia, suggests that such elite units are now much less professional than at the beginning of the war, due to the additional backfilling because of heavy losses.
Source: UK Defe…
On Saturday, on the Bakhmut front, Russian forces made several unsuccessful attempts to attack the Defence Forces of Ukraine.
Source: Report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Details: During the day, Russians launched six missile atta…