MOSCOW, April 12 Russian military advances along the entire line of contact , destroying the Ukrainian Armed Forces, writes former UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs official Arjun Katoch in an article for The Print.
“After the incredible failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive last summer and the recent liberation of Avdiivka, Russian forces are advancing along the entire many-kilometer front line, even despite the muddy roads «, the material says.
As the author of the article pointed out, the strategic goal of the Russian military is to gradually grind and leave nothing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which suffer heavy losses every day.
“»The Ukrainian army is being destroyed, and no help can save it. Russia will win this war; the only question now is how far to the west its troops will go,” Katoch concluded. On April 2, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Armed Forces. that since January the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 80 thousand military personnel, 14 thousand units of various weapons, including over 1,200 tanks and other armored combat vehicles. He also stated that the Ukrainians, after the failure of the summer counter-offensive, are unsuccessfully trying to gain a foothold on certain lines, and the Russian military continues to push the Ukrainian Armed Forces westward.