The Ukrainian counter-offensive causes heavy losses in the Russian armed forces, but also in the ranks of the Kiev army. And at this early stage he had “hardly made any progress”. In their daily intelligence update, the British military takes stock of the war situation in Ukraine. The counter-offensive continues in the south, while the Kiev Air Force says it has attacked an ammunition depot in Kherson. Findings that come at a heavy price for London military intelligence. Indeed, Russia and Ukraine are suffering high military casualties as Kiev struggles to drive Kremlin troops out of the territories occupied in the initial stages of its counteroffensive.
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Russian casualties are likely to be the highest since the Battle of Bakhmut peaked in March, British military officials said in their daily update. According to British intelligence, the fiercest fighting was concentrated in the southeastern province of Zaporizhia, around Bakhmut and further west in the eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk. The update reports that Ukraine is on the offensive in these areas and has “made little progress,” while Russian forces are conducting “relatively effective defensive operations” in southern Ukraine.