In recent days, the Russian occupiers have given priority to an operation to encircle the city of Avdiyivka in Donetsk region, but they have made only insignificant progress at the cost of heavy losses in armored vehicles, according to a defense intelligence report tweeted by the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Monday.

"Russia's 10th Tank Regiment has likely lost a large proportion of its tanks while attempting to surround Avdiнivka from the south... 10th Tank Regiment's losses have likely largely been due to tactically flawed frontal assaults similar to those in other recent failed Russian armoured attacks, such as around the town of Vuhledar," the report notes.

According to intelligence, the regiment is part of 3rd Army Corps, the first major new formation Russia stood up to support the invasion of Ukraine since August 2022. Numerous open-source accounts suggested that 3rd Army Corps has been "particularly dogged by problems with ill-discipline and poor morale." "Despite a likely period of training in Belarus, the formation still appears to display limited combat effectiveness," the report notes.