Ukraine: Army chief says fighting at front has 'escalated'

The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's equipped forces connected Sunday said that the concern connected the frontline had worsened and reported that Russian forces had made battlefield gains.

"The concern connected the beforehand has escalated," Oleksandr Syrsky said successful a Facebook station connected Sunday.

"Seeking to prehend strategical inaugural and interruption done the frontline, the hostile focused large efforts successful aggregate directions, creating a important vantage successful forces and resources," Syrsky said.

Russian forces 'achieved immoderate tactical success'

Kyiv's apical wide said immoderate positions were "changing hands respective times during the day."

With immoderate of the fiercest warring taking spot adjacent Avdiivka, Syrsky said that Ukrainian troops had tactically retreated on 3 sections of the frontline successful the eastbound Donetsk region.

Syrsky conceded that Russian forces had "achieved immoderate tactical occurrence successful these directions, but could not summation an operational advantage."

He added that Ukrainian forces were inflicting "maximum losses, some successful unit and subject equipment."

Meanwhile, Russia's Ministry of Defense connected Sunday said that its forces had destroyed ammunition depots and subject instrumentality located astatine 3 airports crossed Ukraine, with the ministry saying these attacks had taken spot implicit a 24-hour period.

Ukraine waits for resupply

The latest concern study from the battlefield comes arsenic Kyiv waits for urgently needed replenishment of battlefield resources, including manpower.

On Friday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced $6 cardinal worthy of subject assistance for Ukraine, and installment from the $61 cardinal approved by Congress.

Western subject experts person warned that Moscow could prehend upon the existent situation and "intensify ongoing violative operations and rocket and drone strikes successful the coming weeks," arsenic the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) explained past week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made repeated appeals for much Patriot aerial defence systems amid repeated Russian attacks connected cities and captious infrastructure.

kb/dj (AFP, AP)