“Russia is using its power-over ratio and its artillery to gradually occupy territory in and around Sivierodonetsk,” one of Ukraine’s last strongholds in the eastern Luhansk region, the Pentagon said in a statement on Sunday. Russia’s incessant bombardment and ground attacks have had a major impact on Ukrainian forces and Sievierodonetsk, the twin city of Lysychansk and the entire Luhansk region could fall in a matter of weeks, a senior Pentagon official said on Sunday. Russia will “drop all its reserves to occupy” Sievirodonetsk and cut off Ukrainian defenders, Ukrainian Governor Sergiy Haidai told the Telegram. However, Ukrainian forces are still retaining ground in parts of the city, and Russia and its allies are also suffering heavy casualties, as was the case throughout the invasion. As Russia struggles to replenish its depleted combat forces, “it has probably begun to prepare for the deployment of the Third Battalion from some battle formations,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “Most brigades usually commit at most two of their three battalions to operations at a time. Third brigades within brigades are often not fully staffed – Russia will probably have to rely on recruits or mobilized reservists to deploy these units to Ukraine. “ Russia has not mobilized its own men of war age, mainly “because it has not formally declared war” with Ukraine, but also because sending Russian troops to die in Donbas would not be popular at home, the Financial Times reports. “But the recruitment is valid in the breakaway pockets of Ukraine” and “in recent weeks, separatist authorities have reportedly stepped up the call, with residents saying men with no military experience are regularly removed from the streets and sent immediately to the front.” A mother in Donetsk told the Financial Times about her late son who was abducted from the street in April. “They took him to the conscription office, changed his clothes, changed his shoes and took him to the base and then to the battles,” he said. “I think he probably did not kill anyone in the end,” he added. “He missed”. The story goes on Russia has not released any casualties since March, but the Pentagon estimates that up to 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine. A Russian court last week ruled that publishing any information about military casualties, including the names and personal details of slain soldiers, violated Russian law, the FT reported.
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