Ukraine's counteroffensive has breached Russian first defensive line, Gen. Mark Milley said.
Milley said that the advance is "bloody, long and slow" but that this is not unusual in war.
"This defensive line, which the Russians spent many months preparing, it's got minefields, it's got dragon's teeth, it's got tank ditches.
One Russian blogger writing about the upturn in Ukraine's fighting fortunes said: "The bastards are rapidly advancing, covered by artillery strikes."
The ISW said, "Russia's lack of operational reserves will force the Russian command to conduct additional redeployments as Ukrainian counteroffensive operations continue to degrade defending Russian forces in several sectors of the front."
Persons:
Mark Milley, Milley, they've, Al, Mamlaka, it's, Gian Marco Benedetto
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Service, Joint Chiefs, Staff, Anadolu Agency, Getty, UK Department of Defense, for, Washington DC, CNN
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Russian, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Zaporizhzhya, Zaporizhzhia