“The situation on the eastern front has worsened significantly in recent days” in the face of the intensifying Russian offensive. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Oleksandr Syrsky said this today, according to the France Press agency. News that rekindles fears that Kiev’s defenses could collapse. Syrsky, who has […]
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“The situation on the eastern front it has gotten significantly worse in the last days” in the face of the intensification of the Russian offensive. The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said this today Oleksandr Syrsky, according to what the agency reports France Press. News that rekindles fears that Kiev’s defenses could collapse. Syrsky, who took over the leadership of the army after the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky he “fired” his predecessor, Valery Zaluzhny, further stated that the Russians may also have superior weapons at this time. He spoke of “a significant one intensification of the enemy offensive after the presidential elections in Russia” last March and added that the decision is being taken “to strengthen the most problematic areas of defense with electronic warfare and air defense”. Kiev said that the situation around the eastern city of Khasiv Yar, on the eastern front 20 kilometers west of Bakhmut, it is “difficult and tense” with the area under “constant fire”.
Moscow has recently made its first territorial gains since taking Bakhmut and is now trying to advance by exploiting the weakness of Ukrainian units dealing with delays in the provision of military aid by Western allies. “The enemy is attacking our positions in the sectors Lyman and Bakhmut with assault groups supported by armored vehicles. In the Pokrovsk sector, they stand trying to break through our defense using dozens of tanks and new armor,” Syrsky said. “The question of regaining the right has arisen again technical superiority on the enemy with high-tech weapons. Only this will allow us to defeat a bigger opponent and to create the conditions to take the strategic initiative,” he said. “The second serious problem is improve the quality of training of the military, especially of the infantry unitso that they can make the most of all the capabilities of Western military equipment and weapons,” he concluded.
Last Thursday, the Ukrainian parliament approved the bill that will reform the rules for the recruitment of civilians. It has been cancelled demobilization clause of the soldiers who served for 36 months. The choice was apparently made at the suggestion of the commander of the Ukrainian armed forces Syrsky. However, it is a hard blow for the soldiers who have been at the front for more than two years. A few days earlier Kiev had decided to lower the military age from 27 to 25. The law comes in addition to the introduction of an electronic register of newly enlisted recruits and the cancellation of the “partially eligible” status for the draft, which indicated health problems for which recruits could be exempted from some military service roles. The two categories left at the moment are “suitable” and “not suitable”.
