Russia failed to achieve any strategic goal in Ukraine - General Staff
Kateryna Tyshchenko - Thursday, 17 March 2022, 00:09
General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces claims that the aggressor has not fully achieved any strategic goal of the offensive operation so far.
Source: General Staff daily summary on Facebook
Verbatim: "The aggressor has not fully achieved any strategic goal of the offensive operation as of March 16."
Details: Russian occupying forces, with the full support of Belarus military and political leadership, continue to actively use its territory to deploy missile systems, launch missile strikes targeted at Ukrainian territory and organise supply for the troops (Volyn direction).
Belarusian intelligence agencies are conducting a survey of citizens crossing the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in order to obtain intelligence information, according to the report.
The aggressors continue to focus its main efforts on conducting reconnaissance and trying to organise a counter-battery fight (Polissya direction). The aggressor hasn't achieved much yet.
Units of the 36th All-Military Army of the Eastern Military District suffered significant losses in military personnel and equipment during the hostilities and were forced to mobilise reserves prematurely.
The aggressors are not leading active offensive actions in the Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna directions. The occupying forces are trying to gain a foothold on the previously seized borders, regroup troops and replenish supplies.
The aggressors haven’t abandoned plans to advance south of the city of Izyum, probably in order to continue the offensive in the direction of Slovyansk. It has failed so far.
The enemy is trying to gain a foothold near the Southern Buh.
"The invaders are trying to relocate the leftover military equipment after Ukrainian Armed Forces units’ attack on the Kherson airfield, which is temporarily under enemy control," the statement said.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet continues to block maritime traffic in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
