Situation at the front escalates but Russian army achieves no success

OLENA ROSHCHINA – THURSDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2022, 15:01

The situation on the southern and eastern fronts of Ukraine has escalated since mobilisation was officially announced in Russia, but so far Russian forces have made no progress.

Source: Oleksii Hromov, Deputy Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at a briefing

Quote: "As of 20 October, Russians are putting most of their efforts into achieving their plans to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk Oblast and holding the occupied territories of Kherson Oblast and parts of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv oblasts.

The occupiers continue to accumulate armaments, ammunition and other military equipment, and are deploying their new units near the border between Russia and Ukraine as well as in the temporarily occupied territories.

The situation on the front has escalated since the mobilisation conducted in the Russian Federation, including of convicts, has worsened, and Russian forces are not advancing".

Details: Hromov states that the mobilisation in Russia "is only increasing the occupiers’ losses".

He added that Russia is making up for the lack of progress on the front by intensifying its attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, using cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and kamikaze drones.

Hromov concluded that the aggressive rhetoric of Russian and Belarusian leaders is intensifying, and the threat of a new offensive in the north of Ukraine from the western part of the Ukrainian border with Belarus is growing.

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