The area around the cities Pavlovka and Vagledar in the southern part of the central Donetsk region it has been the scene of intense fighting for the past two weeks.
According to the British Ministry of Defence Russian forces suffered heavy losses. There has been intense fighting there for two weeks, but a Russian breakthrough is unlikely.
Both Russia and Ukraine have committed significant forces to this region, but Russian naval forces have suffered heavy casualties.
This area remains strongly disputedperhaps in part because Russia sees the territory as potentially a springboard for a future big push north to capture the rest of Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
However Russia is unlikely to be able to concentrate forces of sufficient qualityto achieve a significant operational breakthrough, British military intelligence wrote in its briefing today.
