The British Ministry of Defense said that the Russian army had difficulties between choosing to consolidate the route in southwestern Ukraine or open an attack at Donbass.

Russian forces face many challenges in maintaining an effective attack and this problem can become more and more serious, the British Ministry of Defense said in the intelligence report on July 19.

According to British defense intelligence, Russian commanders are facing the difficult choice between deploying reserve forces to carry out a new attack at Donbass, or strengthen the defensive posture before Ukraine's counter -attacks in

Russia's immediate goal is to control the entire province of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, but the speed of advancing and winning more territory will likely be very slow, according to the British Ministry of Defense.

Russia continued to deploy 6 separate troops participating in the attack in Donbass, with the total number before launching the military campaign was about 150,000 people, the report had a paragraph.

Russian soldiers patrolled in southern Ukraine on June 27.

Russia has not commented on the British Ministry of Defense.

Russia launched a special military campaign on February 24 for demilitaries and non -fascist Ukraine.

Ukraine said that the new attack will likely take place after a period of suspension of tactics to consolidate forces, in the context of the Russian army suffered a number of losses in the campaign of attacking two cities Severodonetsk and Lysychansk

The Ukrainian army announced the opening of a number of counterattack and re -control 44 residential areas in the southern province of Kherson.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu recently ordered the military units to promote combat activities to prevent raids with jet and missiles into the Russian territory controlled in eastern Ukraine and

The Ukrainian battlefield situation after more than 4 months of fighting.

Ukraine Foreign Minister Kuleba said Kiev would only be ready to resume peace negotiations if Moscow failed on the battlefield.

In addition to the Ukrainian conflict, Russia and the West also confronted fiercely in an economic battle in which anyone endured more durable will win.