The recent progress of Russia around the southern village of Rogne is a sophisticated for Ukraine against the background of reducing Western military assistance.
Russia has returned the lands that Ukrainian troops had hardly conquered at the peak of their summer counter -offensive in the south, making progress in the Southern village of Robne.
The current situation has intensified the latest realities of the war: as a result of a counter -offensive stop, Ukrainian troops retreated in many areas of the front. In addition to the robot in the south, they also fight in the East, almost retreating from Marinka, officials said this week.
Deepening its problems, Kiev is increasingly worried that its military will not have resources to continue the fight. On Wednesday, Washington announced that he released the last military assistance package approved by the Congress remaining at Kiev.
"We are losing some fields now, but if US assistance is detained, we will start losing cities," Yegor Chernev, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee, said in an interview in an interview with Yegor Chernev, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for National Security, Defense and Intelligence. "Without American ammunition, we begin to lose the territories that have been difficult to conquered this summer."
Republican lawmakers in Congress continue to assist Ukraine, as the war is going on for the New Year, for several weeks, Washington's plans for providing Kiev with greater military assistance. Last week, Congress again refused to approve the security package of Ukraine worth $ 50 billion, postponing the next year negotiations.
Although some military assistance can still be provided under a separate Pentagon -controlled program, Baiden's administration is now using the latest funds already approved by Congress. According to US officials, a packet of assistance worth $ 250 million on Wednesday, which includes air defense, artillery shells and more than 15 million range for small arms, is probably the last tranche of available funding.
"When it is done," said a spokesman for national security Council John Kirby last week, "we will no longer have the authority to replenish the stocks."
The Ukrainian military says that their troops are faced with a lack of critically important equipment and ammunition. Some soldiers and commanders have stated that this shortage forced them to collapse some operations and move on to a defense strategy.
The situation around the village of Robone, in the south of the Zaporozhye region, can be an example.
Ukrainian brigades, prepared and equipped in the west, returned the village in August after a week of fighting. But the Institute for War Study, a research group based in Washington, said on Wednesday that Russian troops returned positions captured by Ukraine during a counter -offensive, "probably after Ukrainian troops went to a more protected position near the robot."
Russian troops have recently advanced from the southwest and the east, moving from the Willow, a neighboring village, which Ukrainian troops tried unsuccessfully this summer to expand the speech they created in Russian defense, according to ISW data and cards of the battlefield, which are in open sources.
So far, Russia's promotion has been limited: open source battle maps show that its troops barely conquered several square miles of territory on the flanks of the robot. But Alexander Tarnavsky, the head of the Ukrainian forces in the south, recognized on Wednesday in an interview with the Air Force that "the situation in our sector is extremely difficult."
Yevgeny Balytsky, appointed by Russia, the chairman of the part of the Zaporizhzhya region, which Russia annexed last year, said this week in an interview with Russian television that he hopes that Russian troops would soon return the robot and enter the original border of the Ukrainian counter -offensive.
This would be a significant moral blow to Ukraine.
The robot has become one of the rare success of the Ukrainian counter -offensive. His admiration after a week of grueling fights - much longer than a few days, which initially expected the Ukrainian military leadership - emphasized the huge difficulties that Kiev faced, trying to break through a deep, dense Russian defense.
Since Ukrainian troops are exhausted by the months of grueling battles, Moscow puts pressure throughout the front lines to reduce the ability of Kiev to remove their units and replenish them for future offensive actions, said Jack Wotling, a researcher and a specialist in the land operations of the Royal Institute of the United Kingdom.
"The Russians will have an advantage over the next few months," Mr Wotling said in an interview with this week. However, he added that "they will not be able to resolve the conflict in the next few months" because of the expensive way of fighting Moscow, which involves the acceptance of huge human and material losses for the sake of limited territorial achievements.
