As the Russian army ended the battle at the Mariupol Steel Plant, they instead invested more troops in the Donbaslugansk region and launched a fierce battle with the Ukrainian army. As the battlefield situation continues to change, the Ukrainian army is in an increasingly unfavorable situation.
According to public information, the Russian army has currently controlled about 95% of Luhansk's territory. In other words, it is not long before Ukraine completely loses control of the entire Donbas region. However, since the Ukrainian army's resistance was quite strong, Russia and Ukraine were fighting for village by village, and the battlefield was extremely tragic.
The war in Ukraine is becoming increasingly fierce, and the United States' military aid to Ukraine is also increasing. According to Global Network , the U.S. Transportation Command announced on the 27th local time that as of now, the United States has delivered about 24,000 tons of military supplies to Ukraine, including missile , artillery , tank and helicopters. In addition, the United States has recently airlifted about 19,000 soldiers to Europe to strengthen its military restraint on Russia.
Before this, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution to allocate $40 billion to White House to provide more military equipment and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. Obviously, in order to make the Ukrainians weaken Russia's military strength to the greatest extent, the United States is continuing to provide more weapons and equipment to the country at all costs, so that the war in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict will burn for longer.
For the United States, although Ukraine has conducted a nationwide war mobilization, its war potential still cannot be compared with Russia. It needs to provide Ukraine with more weapons and equipment to reverse the decline of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield. As more and more elite Ukrainian troops are eliminated or reduced, although the regular Ukrainian army still maintains a certain scale. But its combat effectiveness has decreased significantly.
The fall of Mariupol Steel Plant, including a large number of elite troops such as the Ukrainian Marine Brigade and the "Azov Battalion", was destroyed as the steel plant was controlled by the Russian army. The blow to the Ukrainian combat effectiveness and morale was self-evident. In addition, based on reports from foreign media in recent days, several Ukrainian companies fighting in Donbas have publicly announced their refusal to give up their resistance due to the lack of external reinforcements.
According to the disclosure of Luhansk diplomats stationed in Russia, due to heavy losses in the army, Ukraine is now recruiting more civilian volunteers or nationalists with no combat experience to fill the gap in the troops. These "rookies" who have not been trained, let alone combat experience, were sent to the front line under various excuses. But their fate may be as follows: either become elite soldiers after being tempered on the battlefield, either died in battle or became deserters, or were captured by the Russian army.
days ago, an article on Ukrainian social media that Ukrainian volunteers felt abandoned on the eastern battlefield attracted public attention. Some Ukrainian volunteer soldiers complained to the media that they were trapped in a position and rely on a potato every day for a living. Faced with the Russian army that was well-equipped, rich in combat experience and able to obtain fierce artillery fire support, these volunteers only had light weapon .
What's more terrible is that many of them "have only received less than half an hour of military training" and were sent to the most dangerous frontline and sent to the place of death. Therefore, they all felt that they were abandoned by their superiors and could only struggle to survive. The biggest hope was to survive.
" Washington Post " interviewed Volunteer Army company commander Lapko and Lieutenant Vitali Krues. They took the entire company to a position far away from the front line. According to them, after three months of fighting, the 120-man company was killed and injured and fled to only 54 left.
At present, the Russian army has completed control of most areas of Donbas, and about 18,000 Ukrainian troops are guarding in the area. Russia and Ukraine are fiercely fighting in a narrow area of North Donetsk.According to the disclosures of relevant officials in Luhansk, so far, more than 8,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been housed in Donetsk and Luhansk. And this number is still increasing at a rate of hundreds of people every day.
Obviously, the war has reached this point today. Under the Russian army's slow "tempo" attack of firepower, Ukraine could no longer carry out large-scale guerrilla warfare in the early stages of the war. It could only hold on and keep losing in the control area of Donbas, which seems to be in danger of losing the initiative on the battlefield.
From the end of the article, these Ukrainian volunteers have a strong fighting will, but the Ukrainian army's organization, logistics and training problems are very big, which leads to resentment.
For example, company commander Lapko and lieutenant Vitali Krues and their men said that after a short rest, they insisted on returning to the front line.
Lapko said: "We are ready to fight, we will continue to fight, we will protect every inch of the country - but have good command, not life-threatening. I swear to be loyal to the Ukrainian people. We are protecting Ukraine, and as long as we are still alive, we will not let anyone in."
But according to the Washington Post, company commander Lapko was subsequently deprived of command and detained at the Lisichangsk base....
