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βA second Afghanistanβ: Doubts over Russiaβs war prosecution
Russia appeared to become bogged down in a new military deadlock in eastern Ukraine during the 10th week of its war, as its forces made
incremental advances but failed to score any significant breakthroughs.
At the same time, Russia attempted to prepare to annex the regions it holds economically and administratively, while the United States prepared to approve massive amounts of new military funding for Ukraine and the European Union readied itself to ban Russian oil.
Since it launched a second phase of the war on April 18 focusing on the eastern Donbas region,
Russiaβs lack of spectacular progress has been noted by analysts.
βLack of unit skills and inconsistent air support have left Russia unable to fully leverage its combat mass, despite localised improvements,β said the United Kingdomβs
defence intelligence on April 30.
Although Russia has put hundreds of Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems and drones out of action,
Ukraine still controls the majority of its airspace, the UK says.
The
Institute for the Study of War is also unimpressed by the second phase. βRussian attacks on Ukrainian defensive positions along the pre-February 24 front lines continue to fail to make substantial progress,β it said on May 1.
βRepeated Russian failures to capture villages such as Zolote and Vilne suggest that
pre-invasion Ukrainian defensive positions are too strong for Russian troops to storm.β
Russia has even failed to dislodge some 2,000 Ukrainian marines from
Mariupolβs Azovstal plant, even though it formally declared victory over the city on April 21.
βUkraine is slowly being turned into a second Afghanistan,β says Political Science and Geopolitics Lecturer Aref Alobeid.