Placeholder while article actions loadRussia is likely to seize control of the entire Luhansk region of Ukraine within a few weeks, a senior U.S. defense official said, as Ukraine sustains heavy casualties and its supplies of ammunition dwindle. But it would still amount to a win for Russian forces and create a new de facto front line that could last for some time. Ukrainian forces control a third of the city, Mayor Alexander Stryuk told the BBC’s Ukrainian service. Ukrainian forces have been fighting a very effective “mobile area defense,” in which Russia presses forward with its assault as Ukrainian forces fall back, only for Ukrainian forces to then rebound and take back land. Roughly 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the Russian invasion began, Oleksiy Arestovych, a military adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said Saturday.

Source: Washington Post June 12, 2022 18:44 UTC