(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 14 - Ukrainian forces are facing "significant problems with supply" and are "systematically withdrawing from the positions" they previously occupied.
Gb intelligence claims it in the latest daily update.
"The Ukrainian defense still controls the western quarters of the city, but has come under particularly intense Russian artillery fire in the past 48 hours," the report said, noting the improved cooperation between the Russian Defense Ministry and the Wagner battalion in the fiercely fighting Donetsk city for months.
The Ukrainian defense still holds the western quarters of the city, according to the report, but they have come under particularly intense artillery fire from Russia in the last 48 hours.
"Wagner Assault Groups continue to lead the main offensive through the city centre, while Russian airborne troops have reinforced some Wagner units from the northern and southern flanks of the operation," the British Defense Ministry said.
However, the Russian army would no longer be able to conduct simultaneous offensive operations in multiple directions and for this reason it is concentrating its efforts on the city of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Experts of the US research center cite the deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the Ukrainian General Staff, Oleksiy Gromov, according to which Russian troops were transferred from Avdiivka to the area of the besieged city.
"Gromov's statement confirms the ISW's long-standing assessment that the Russian armed forces in their current form are not capable of conducting simultaneous large-scale offensive campaigns in multiple directions," the Institute stresses.
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