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Russia's failures just keep piling up.
Russian forces in Ukraine have failed to meet a key deadline for progress in eastern Ukraine ahead of a long-touted counteroffensive from Kyiv, according to a new assessment.
Moscow did not manage to "achieve the Kremlin's goals" of exerting control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions by March 31, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank said on Saturday.
The two regions, which collectively make up the Donbas, saw fighting between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists break out in 2014. They have seen many of the heaviest clashes since the start of the all-out war in February 2022.
Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's intelligence service, said Moscow had fallen short of its objectives in "taking Donbas by the end of March."
"The regular deadlines and tasks that Putin set for the occupation corps in Ukraine, in particular, for [Russian Chief of General Staff] Valery Gerasimov after he was appointed to be responsible for the war in Ukraine, have failed," he added in a press release.
Gerasimov took over Russian operations in Ukraine in early January, spearheading a "general winter offensive" to take control of Donetsk and Luhansk, the British defense ministry said on Saturday.
"Eighty days on, it is increasingly apparent that this project has failed," the government department said in its daily update.
Russian forces in Ukraine have failed to meet a key deadline for progress in eastern Ukraine ahead of a long-touted counteroffensive from Kyiv, according to a new assessment.
Moscow did not manage to "achieve the Kremlin's goals" of exerting control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions by March 31, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank said on Saturday.
The two regions, which collectively make up the Donbas, saw fighting between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists break out in 2014. They have seen many of the heaviest clashes since the start of the all-out war in February 2022.
Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's intelligence service, said Moscow had fallen short of its objectives in "taking Donbas by the end of March."
"The regular deadlines and tasks that Putin set for the occupation corps in Ukraine, in particular, for [Russian Chief of General Staff] Valery Gerasimov after he was appointed to be responsible for the war in Ukraine, have failed," he added in a press release.
Gerasimov took over Russian operations in Ukraine in early January, spearheading a "general winter offensive" to take control of Donetsk and Luhansk, the British defense ministry said on Saturday.
"Eighty days on, it is increasingly apparent that this project has failed," the government department said in its daily update.