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British intelligence services point to “significant supply problems” for Ukrainian troops
14 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The intelligence services of the United Kingdom have affirmed this Friday that the Ministry of Defense of Russia and the Wagner Group, owned by an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, “have improved their coordination” in their offensive against the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. .
“Russia has injected new energy into its assault on the town of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk province, after the forces of the Russian Defense Ministry and the Wagner Group enhanced their cooperation,” they said, according to a series of messages published by the British Ministry of Defense in its account on the social network Twitter.
Thus, they have detailed that “the assault groups of the Wagner Group continue to make the greatest advances in the center of the city, while the Russian airborne troops have given relief to some units of the Wagner Group destined to secure the northern and southern flanks of the operation”.
“Ukrainian defenses still hold the western districts of the city, but they have been subjected to particularly intense artillery fire during the last 48 hours,” they stated, before stressing that “Ukrainian forces face significant supply problems but they have made orderly withdrawals from the positions they have been forced to concede.”
The assessment of the situation by the British Intelligence services comes a day after the Russian Ministry of Defense assured that the city, a strategic objective of Russia, is already “blocked”, although the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeni Prighozin maintained that the Ukrainian forces still have room for movement in the area.
