The 🇺🇦 mayor of Kramatorsk: “Let me give you my professional opinion as mayor: if we don’t get heavy weapons in two or three weeks, we’re fucked.” newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
Russian commanders are rotating forces on the frontline. 
„The Russian Army has split its forces into smaller groups, which it uses, along with a sizable fleet of drones, to identify and target Ukrainian positions, hitting them with artillery and air strikes.“
„When a particular zone or village has effectively been levelled, ground troops—a mixture of regular Russian soldiers, Wagner mercenaries, & fighters mobilized from the Russia-backed separatist territories in Donetsk & Luhansk, Tarnavsky said—move in to try to seize the rubble.“
According to Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavsky, the deputy commander of Ukrainian forces on the eastern front, Ukrainian forces lack skill & experience as a result of heavy losses among the most experienced Ukrainian troops.
„..Ukrainian infantry rarely see the enemy. Rather, battles are often fought at distances of ten miles or more. The war has become, as one soldier told me, a game of ‚artillery Ping-Pong.‘“ Great piece by @yaffaesque
"In areas where battles have been the most intense, Russia has had, by his count, a five-to-one manpower advantage. Tarnavsky also estimated that Russia has an advantage of up to seven-to-one in artillery batteries and a similarly large stockpile of munitions."
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