Ukraine on Sunday called on the international community to step up pressure on Russia, including through new sanctions, as the war between the two countries continues with bombing of both camps in border areas and Russian troops on the offensive along much of the front line. which the Ukrainian army, which is experiencing a crisis of ammunition, is responding with drone attacks on strategic targets in the enemy’s rear as a tactic of asymmetric warfare, reports the EFE agency, quoted by Agerpres.

“Every manifestation of pressure on Russia is a step towards peace. Every act of aid for Ukraine is a protection of life. I am grateful to everyone who helps Ukraine,” said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

“A new package of EU sanctions (against Russia) is needed, and we are preparing it. We are also preparing new measures to limit Russia’s ability to circumvent sanctions,” he added.

Zelensky also asked Western allies to speed up the decision to confiscate Russian assets in the West, which amount to about $300 billion in foreign currency or gold reserves frozen after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

For its part, Russia accused Ukraine and the West of trying to “steal” these assets from it and threatened a “painful” response if such a plan was actually implemented.

On the night of Saturday to Sunday, Russia launched a new attack from drones and missiles on Ukrainian territory, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the targets were ammunition and PMM warehouses in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, as well as locations of artillery, personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian army.

During this time, the governor of the Belgorod border region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported that the Ukrainian army had fired 40 shells at five settlements in this region in the last day.

Ammunition crisis for Ukrainians

On Sunday, CNN reported, citing Ukrainian officials, that “Russia is conducting offensive operations along much of the front line as the Ukrainian military struggles to hold its ground” and is facing a munitions crisis.

Particularly intense fighting is taking place in the northeast, along the strip of territory where the Kharkiv and Luhansk regions of Ukraine collide. “The enemy is gathering strength and attacking every day,” says a Ukrainian military officer.

“As the war enters its next phase, the Russian military has launched a new offensive operation, while Ukrainian forces are taking a defensive position. At this stage, Ukraine appears to have an advantage in the ‘drone war’, allowing it to effectively thwart the new Russian offensive,” Forbes magazine opined in an article published late this week.

In any case, the situation would be completely different if Ukraine received weapons from its Western partners and permission to strike deeper into Russia, assessed the Commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Oleksiy Neypapa.

Ukraine’s military currently uses drones to strike strategic targets in Russia as an asymmetric warfare tactic, with a recent focus on oil targets, such as this week’s attacks on an oil refinery on the Black Sea coast or a liquefied natural gas terminal. in St. Petersburg.

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