KYIV, Ukraine – As Russia makes slow, bloody gains in a renewed push to capture more of eastern Ukraine, it is pouring ever more conscripts and military supplies into the battle, Ukrainian officials say, although it remains far from clear that Moscow could mobilise enough forces to sustain a prolonged offensive.
“The major threat is the quantity,” Mr Serhiy Haidai, the Ukrainian governor of the eastern region of Luhansk, told Ukrainian television on Tuesday. “It is a huge monster that is at war with us, and it owns immense resources – not endless, but still. There are too many of them.” But Western intelligence officials have questioned whether Russian President Vladimir Putin could quickly find hundreds of thousands more soldiers without triggering a greater domestic backlash.
But it had “only managed to gain several hundred metres of territory per week,” because of a lack of munitions and maneuver units, the agency said, in its latest daily assessment of the war. Ukrainian soldiers use a drone to search for Russian soldiers hiding in residential buildings in Bakhmut, Ukraine. PHOTO: NYTIMES
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