A Russian senator said the war's offensive was proceeding 'with quite some difficulty' and Russia was fighting one of the 'strongest and best-trained armies.'
"As the Russian leaders said more than once, Russia will achieve the goals of its military operation on denazifying and demilitarizing Ukraine, defending the [Donetsk People's Republic] and the [Luhansk People's Republic] and removing the threats to its own security," Zakharova added later in the briefing. Donetsk and Luhansk are two self-declared, Russian-backed separatist republics in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.
While Klintsevich did not indicate during his state TV appearance that Russia's reported struggles in the war could be due to its own errors or failures, he did concede that the offensive was proceeding"with quite some difficulty." A Russian senator recently said on state TV that his country is fighting in Ukraine one of the"strongest and best-trained armies." Above, Russian servicemen patrol the destroyed part of the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol on Wednesday.
He said the conflict differs from other wars Russia has fought, such as those in Afghanistan and the Caucasus, because of the strength of Ukraine's military. In its Russian offensive campaign assessment for May 19, which cited Ukrainian military officials, the ISW said that some Russian troops withdrew from the"Kharkiv city axis" and redeployed to the Donetsk region to"replace the significant combat losses that the 107th Motorized Rifle Battalion has taken approximately 20 km southwest of Donetsk City.reached out to the defense ministries of Russia and Ukraine for comment.
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