Russia has claimed to have breached two fortified Ukrainian defensive lines on the eastern front. Kyiv described conditions there as 'difficult'
Russia said on Wednesday it had broken through two fortified Ukrainian defence lines on the eastern front, with Kyiv describing conditions there as difficult and Western allies announcing more military aid including artillery rounds.
Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai said Russia was pouring heavy equipment and mobilised troops into Luhansk. Russia's main effort has been focused on the town of Bakhmut in Donetsk province adjacent to Luhansk. President Zelensky said on Tuesday that Russia was in a hurry to achieve as much as it could with its latest push before Ukraine, armed with heavier and longer-range firepower from the West, gathers strength for what many expect to be a spring counter-offensive.
"It would be very disappointing if, after so long of pointing the finger at Germany for not doing anything, these countries now don't follow suit," Borrell told Germany's Phoenix broadcaster. Britain said it and other European nations would provide military equipment including spare parts for tanks and artillery ammunition to Ukraine via an international fund, with an initial package worth more than $241 million.
"They're producing and reactivating nowhere near enough to compensate for those loss rates. Their current armoured fleet at the front is about half the size it was at the start of the war," Henry Boyd, research fellow at the IISS, told Reuters.Ukraine has secured promises of around 100 modern Western tanks, including the US Abrams, the German Leopard and the British Challenger, whose capabilities far exceed the older Russian models.
Barrie said Western sanctions were hampering Russia's ability to replenish its stocks of guided weapons that rely on imported microprocessors.
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