In Bakhmut, a fierce battleground in eastern Ukraine that Russia is trying to seize, it has been pointed out that the Russian army's offensive is slowing. There is also a view that Russia's Chief of Staff Gerasimov continued the invasion over the winter as the new commander-in-chief, but the failure is becoming clear.
The New York Times, a leading American newspaper, reported on March 30 that the commander of the Ukrainian army said that "the imminent danger of the city being surrounded by Russian troops has been thwarted."
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley, the top uniformed group of the US military, also revealed an analysis on the 29th that "the Russian army has not advanced at all in and around Bakhmut in the past 20 or 21 days," and it has been pointed out that the Russian army's offensive is slowing.
In addition, the British Ministry of Defense said on the 1st that since Chief of Staff Gerasimov, the head of the Russian military's uniformed group, was appointed as the new commander of the invasion of Ukraine in January, the aim of expanding control of the eastern Donbass region has been clear, but the failure has become clear, with tens of thousands of casualties among Russian troops and control of only a few areas.
And he points out the question of how far the Russian leadership can tolerate Gerasimov's failures.
On the other hand, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new basic guidelines of foreign policy on the 1st, in which he justified the military invasion by saying, "The United States and other Western countries have launched a new hybrid war in response to the measures taken by Russia to protect its important national interests in Ukraine. It has made clear its confrontational stance with Europe and the United States.