Russian forces claimed some battlefield success Wednesday, as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine labored to gain momentum almost a year after it began.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its troops broke through two Ukrainian defensive lines in the eastern Luhansk region and pushed back Ukrainian troops some three kilometers , forcing them to leave behind equipment and the bodies of those killed.
In Luhansk, the number of Russian ground and air attacks is “growing every day,” Gov. Serhii Haidai said on Ukrainian TV. The Kremlin is striving to secure eastern areas it illegally annexed last September — the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions — and where it claims its rule is welcomed. Pro-Moscow separatists have controlled part of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk province since 2014.
The U.K. Ministry of Defense said Wednesday that Russia’s military industrial output “is becoming a critical weakness.” Some analysts had doubted the wisdom of Ukraine holding out in Bakhmut because it could hurt the chances of its expected spring offensive.
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