British military experts on Tuesday said the Russian occupation forces in southern Ukraine are probably rationing their artillery ammunition to remain operational.
The daily intelligence report from the Defence Ministry in London said despite the Ukrainian offensive, it was unlikely that the Ukrainian military had yet broken into Russia’s primary defensive lines.
A Ukrainian bridgehead on the Russian-occupied side of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region posed an additional challenge to Russian commanders, it said.
In military strategy, a bridgehead refers to an area on the ground on the enemy-controlled side of a river that, if successfully taken over, could secure a stronghold for further advances.
Russian commanders are “likely concerned about the vulnerability of their south-western flank,” the British statement said.
The ministry had been publishing daily information on the war since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow dismisses it as disinformation.
dpa/NAN
