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Reports of heavy shelling near Izium suggest Russia is preparing to make a renewed assault on northern Ukraine, the British defence ministry has said in its daily bulletin.
The department added that Russian progress made during May on the southern Popasna axis has stalled over the last week.
“Russia will almost certainly need to achieve a breakthrough on at least one of these axes to translate tactical gains to operational level success and progress towards its political objective of controlling all of Donetsk Oblast,” the ministry said.
Meanwhile, Ukraine‘s defence ministry said Russia was throwing troops and equipment into its drive to capture the largest remaining Ukrainian-held city in Luhansk.
Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said that the situation had worsened after Ukrainian defenders had pushed back the Russians over the weekend as they seemed close to victory.
Elsewhere, Russia’s ambassador stormed out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday in which Moscow was accused of weaponising a global food crisis and committing war crimes in Ukraine.
