Apty Alaudinov, a top aide to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, commander of the Akhmat special force (which is Chechen), and deputy commander of the 2nd army corps of the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), claimed yesterday that Ukraine is not only running out of its stockpiles of old Soviet-era arms and munitions but also of the supplies provided by NATO. “[The Ukrainian army] has run out of not only supplied weapons but also of a lot of weapons of Soviet make that were in Ukraine,” he wrote on his Telegram channel, reported TASS.
According to Alaudinov, Russian forces are closing in on the city of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine) in the Donetsk People’s Republic. He stressed that Russian forces are trying to avoid casualties among civilians and that this is why their progress in this direction has slowed down. He said that Ukraine’s losses since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation have amounted to around 200,000 troops. “Is there any sense in these casualties for us? I don’t think so. That is why we will be moving forward carefully but steadily,” he stressed, adding that Ukraine will not be able to “counterattack in the coming year.”
