Ukraine’s deputy head of military intelligence has said Ukraine is losing against Russia on the frontlines and is now almost solely reliant on weapons from the west to keep Russia at bay.
“This is an artillery war now,” said Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence. The frontlines were now where the future would be decided, he told the Guardian, “and we are losing in terms of artillery”.
Putin compares himself to Peter the Great in quest to take back Russian lands
Vladimir Putin has compared himself to the 18th-century Russian tsar Peter the Great, drawing a parallel between what he portrayed as their twin historic quests to win back Russian lands.
“Peter the Great waged the great northern war for 21 years. It would seem that he was at war with Sweden, he took something from them. He did not take anything from them, he returned [what was Russia’s],” the Russian president said on Thursday after a visiting an exhibition dedicated to the tsar.
Putin: West unlikely to reject Russian energy for years
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the West will not be able to cut itself off from Russian oil and gas for several years.
He added that nobody knows what might happen in that time, so Russian companies would not be “concreting over their oil-wells”.
It comes as a US official admitted that Russian profits on energy may be higher now than they were before the war.
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian 2S7 Pion 203mm self-propelled howitzer was hit by Russian cluster munitions near Bakhmut, #Donetsk Oblast – at the rear side propellant can be seen burning severely, so the SPH is at least damaged and likely requires repair. pic.twitter.com/OYXQyzWQ44
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 9, 2022
