The British Ministry of Defense expected that “in the coming months there will be attempts by Russian troops to cross the Seversky River in eastern Ukraine”, stressing that “these operations will determine the course of the war.”

In a daily military intelligence report, the ministry indicated that “the middle of the Russian front of hostilities, which stretches for 90 km in the Donbas region, is located west of the Seversky River”, explaining that “in order for Russian forces to achieve success at the current stage of their operations in the Donbass it will be necessary to carry out large encirclements or direct strikes across the river.

A British intelligence report stated that “Ukrainian forces managed to destroy several bridges before withdrawing from the area, while Russian forces had great difficulty in coordinating the crossing of their forces in large numbers under Ukrainian fire.”

The report stated that “fierce fighting between the two sides has continued in the city of Severodonetsk for the past two days, where violent clashes are taking place due to the strategic location of the city in the east of the country, where each side claims to determine the time of its control over the region over time, without knowing until now the development of field events.

And the latest British intelligence reports said that “Russia has amassed new combat units to push it into the ongoing military operation in Ukraine, where Russian forces have been preparing for several weeks to deploy a third battalion of combat formations to conduct operations on the territory of Ukraine. territory.”