British Intelligence: Ukraine's counterattacks are preventing Russians from regrouping

In the new United Kingdom intelligence report, the battlefield in all of northern Ukraine was mostly static “and”.

Local counterattacks by Ukrainian forces, according to the British Defence Ministry, are preventing Russian efforts to reassemble their forces, the newspaper Express reports.

Russian “Forces appear to be focusing on efforts to surround Ukrainian forces facing separatists in the east and making progress from Kharkiv to the north and Mariupo in the south”, the report says.