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The war between Russia and Ukraine is “entering a new phase,” British intelligence said on Saturday.
The British Defense Intelligence Agency said in an intelligence report that Russian forces were “certainly concentrated” in southern Ukraine, with strategic fighting shifting from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine to areas between Mykolaiv Oblast, Kherson and Crimea. rice field. South.
“The war between Russia and Ukraine is about to enter a new phase, with the most intense fighting shifting to the nearly 350km frontline, which stretches south-west along the Dnieper from near Zaporizhia to Kherson,” the UK Ministry of Defense said. .
“Russian forces are almost certainly massing in the south in anticipation of a Ukrainian counterattack or in preparation for a possible attack,” the intelligence report added.
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The UK Ministry of Defense also detailed a large-scale movement of Russian troops, tanks and support vehicles into the southern region.
“A long convoy of Russian military trucks, tanks, towed artillery and other weapons continues to move away from the Donbass region of Ukraine and towards the southwest. , from Mariupol and from mainland Russia, the Kerch Bridge to Crimea,” the information update said.
“A battalion tactical group (BTG) has been deployed in Crimea with a compromise of 800 to 1,000 troops and will almost certainly be used to support Russian forces in the Kherson region,” the report added. , noted that another BTG was likely to join these forces. “In the next few days.”
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After more than 160 days of fighting in a war that many experts believed lasted less than two weeks, Ukraine successfully counterattacked and reclaimed territories on the Eastern Front previously occupied by Russia.
The country has also successfully targeted critical transportation infrastructure that Russia used to support its troops on the front lines.
“Ukrainian forces are concentrating their targets on an increasingly frequent railway network in the southern regions of Ukraine, including bridges, ammunition depots, and strategically important railway spurs connecting Kherson and Russian-occupied Crimea. , will almost certainly try to block, damage, degrade, impact, deny, destroy, disrupt and affect Russia’s logistical supply capabilities,” the report said.
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The report was issued as Ukrainian authorities reacted and responded to the Russian offensive in Kherson last month.