This month, due to the hostilities in Donbas, 28 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, and over a hundred were wounded. Relatively quiet early May gave way to escalation and the biggest losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine this year, informs the news agency BBC.
Despite the increase in losses on both sides, currently we cannot talk about serious escalation of hostilities in Donbas but rather of local battles, says Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi.
“Large-scale escalation, to put it crudely, is assuming the offensive. For now, it is the intelligence of defence force, and identification of weak …read more
Source: Razumkov Centre