The Defense Intelligence Agency assessments conclude that Ukraine nonetheless doesn’t have the munitions to match Russia’s capacity to fireside some 10,000 artillery rounds a day, even after the U.S. Congress unlocked recent army help in April. Ukrainian forces stay able to defensive operations however gained’t be capable of launch large-scale counteroffensives for no less than six months.
Russia, however, has adopted a technique of exhausting Ukraine and can be capable of preserve a buffer zone its troops captured — however doesn’t have sufficient power “to threaten a deeper advance into Ukrainian-held territory, equivalent to Kharkiv metropolis,” mentioned DIA in a single commentary.