According to the latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 19 July 2022:
Russia continues to commit what are nominally six separate armies to its Donbas offensive. At full strength, before the invasion, these formations were established for around 150,000 personnel.
As well as dealing with severe under-manning, Russian planners face a dilemma between deploying reserves to the Donbas or defending against Ukrainian counterattacks in the southwestern Kherson sector.
Russia’s stated immediate policy objective is to seize all of Donetsk Oblast.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said that thanks to the timely arrival of the M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launcher systems, it was possible to stabilize the situation at the front.
