Unconsciously, the Russo-Ukrainian war has come to the second month, and the situation has undergone new changes.
On April 2, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian military precision weapons destroyed some of Ukraine's oil refineries and fuel storage depots, cutting off Ukraine's supply channels for the central and eastern Ukrainian army to replenish fuel. On the night of April 1, Russian forces destroyed 67 Ukrainian military targets, including 2 ammunition depots and 2 command posts.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stressed on the 2nd that so far, the Russian army has destroyed 124 Ukrainian fighters, 381 drones and 1882 combat vehicles.
As far as the present is concerned, in northern Donetsk, Kherson and other places, Russia and Ukraine are still fiercely exchanging fire, and the Ukrainian army has launched a fierce counterattack in some areas, but on the whole, the Russian army still has the initiative and superiority.
It is worth mentioning that after Russia revealed that "Ukrainian helicopters attacked Russian oil depots", Zelenskiy said in a veiled manner that as the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, he would not discuss any of his orders.
In other words, Russia accused the Ukrainian army of attacking the Russian oil depot, but Ukraine's response was "neither admit nor deny", which makes people wonder: what medicine is sold in Zelenskiy's gourd?
Putin spokesman Peskov said that the Ukrainian army attacked the Russian mainland at this time, which is not conducive to the Russian-Ukrainian peace talks, but in Ukraine's view, since the Russian army can bomb Ukraine, Kiev, Kharkov, and Lviv have all been bombed by missiles, why can't Ukraine retaliate? Since it is a war, where is the reason that only Russia is allowed to fight Ukraine, but Ukraine cannot fight back?
This is the first time since the Russian army blitzed Ukraine that Russia has acknowledged that "the Ukrainian army attacked the military target of the Russian mainland", which is of unusual significance. Judging by Ukraine's response, Kiev doesn't want to make a big deal out of it.
One obvious change in the situation on the battlefield is that Ukraine has stopped recruiting mercenaries, but Russia has welcomed helpers.
Ukraine said on April 1 that it called on foreign volunteers not to come to Ukraine to fight russian forces for the time being because of the lack of sufficient weapons in Ukraine and the lack of combat experience and training of foreign volunteers.
Ukraine believes that going to war without training can produce a variety of results.
Of course, this is just one side of Ukraine. Because of the Russian military's missile bombardment of the Ukrainian military training ground and the death of a large number of mercenaries, the mercenaries who survived from the United States, Britain, France and Germany rushed to Ukraine to fight chose to rush to Poland immediately and then find an opportunity to return to the mainland.
Because the Russian military told these mercenaries with practical actions, the battlefield is not a joke, the Russian army is not scaring the mercenaries, if they continue to stay in Ukraine, these mercenaries are likely to be completely annihilated by Russia.
At this time, the New York Times revealed an important message, that is, "hundreds of Syrian armed men are on their way to Ukraine", many of whom have received military training in Russia before heading to Ukraine.
The New York Times said at least 300 of the militants were Syrian soldiers from a Syrian division that had worked closely with Russian forces in Syria. At present, Syria is recruiting mercenaries from all over the world, and after being reviewed by the Syrian security services, these mercenaries will be handed over to Russia.
In other words, among the Syrian militants who went to Russia for military training and then rushed to Ukraine to fight, there were both those with little combat experience and the Syrian army that had fought alongside the Russian army.
After the Russian-Ukrainian war began, Assad's choice was to support Putin, and Syria believed that the United States was the initiator of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and russia's countermeasures were not wrong.
For Putin, the participation of the Syrian army in the war is undoubtedly good news, even if it does not affect the direction of the war, but at least it can show that the Russian army is not alone.
Russia is concentrating its forces to prepare for a new round of attack on the Donbass, and there should be a big war between Russia and Ukraine, because the Russian army wants to annihilate the Donbass cluster of the Ukrainian army, but no matter who loses and who wins, the final result will be cheaper the United States.
As for how the battle situation will change, it remains to be seen.