Russia is intensifying efforts to bolster its position in eastern Ukraine and penetrate the front line before the first batch of a U.S. military package arrives, The New York Times reported on April 30.
The recent withdrawal of the Ukrainian forces from Berdychiv and Semenivka, north of Avdiivka, has put the Russian command in a strategic decision-making position, according to an April 28 analysis by the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) experts believe that the ATACMS provided to Ukraine by the United States could weaken Russian logistics and pose a threat with strikes on Russian airfields and warehouses.