According to the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense, Russia is sending reserve forces from all over the country to prepare for the future. Moscow says it won't withdraw its troops from occupied areas of Ukraine's south and will dismantle the Ukrainian army in the whole of the Donbas region.
The U.K. Defence Ministry said on Saturday that Russia is moving reserve forces from across the country and assembling them near the Ukrainian border.
A lot of the new infantry units are likely to use long-term storage as their primary transport.
Russian tanks are not suitable for most front-line infantry transport roles, according to the ministry.
It said that despite President Putin's claim that the Russian military has not even started, many of its reinforcements are ad hoc.
The U.S. plans to give another $400 million in military aid to Ukraine.
The ambassador to the U.K., Andrei Kelin, said on Friday that Russian troops have no plans to leave the southern coastal areas they have been in. The last of which is home to Europe's largest nuclear power plant is the region of Kherson.
The Ukrainian forces are able to slow down some of Russia's advances using advanced precision weapons from the West, but they still need more and the troops need more time to learn how to use them.
Western weapons are making a difference, but the Ukrainians need more.
A senior Defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that a $400 million security assistance package would be announced by the Biden administration. A mixture of systems already deployed to the fight will be the latest security assistance.
A city councilor in Moscow was sentenced to seven years in prison for spreading fake information about the war in Ukraine.
According to one lawyer, this is the first instance of anyone being sent to jail under Russia's law, which criminalizes the dissemination of fake information about Russia's army. The government's reports are anything but fake.
Moscow city deputy Alexei Gorinov, accused of spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian army fighting in Ukraine, stands with a poster reading “Do you still need this war?” inside a glass cell during the verdict hearing in his trial at a courthouse in Moscow on July 8, 2022.The councilman was talking about a children's drawing contest at a local meeting that was filmed and uploaded to the internet. He asked, "What kind of children's drawing contest can we talk about for Children's Day?"
"They took away my spring, they took away my summer, and now they've taken away seven more years of my life," he said during his sentencing, according to his supporters.
A Moscow city councilor was sentenced to seven years in prison for making an anti-war comment.
Several foreign ministers called for an end to the Russian blockade of Ukrainian ports at the G-20 meeting in Indonesia.
Western officials at the meeting of "rabid Russophobia" and of focusing on criticizing Moscow rather than on ways to tackle global economic issues, was accused by the Russian Foreign Minister.
The G-20 was created to find common ground on key issues on the global economy and finances, but there is only a small amount of common ground.
“It is a direct provocation (by Ukraine), aimed at involving the West in military action,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference while in Saudi Arabia.On Saturday, the Secretary of State spoke to his Chinese counterpart about Russian aggression.
Lawyers and rights groups say more Russians are avoiding military service.
He was concerned about Beijing's "alignment" with Moscow.
There is concern about the PRC's alignment with Russia and China hasamplified Russian propaganda.
The media in China blamed NATO and the U.S. for the war in Ukraine and refused to join the Western sanctions against Russia. Beijing and Moscow had a partnership just weeks before the Ukrainian invasion.
The report was contributed to by CNBC'samanda macias.
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