We don’t have reliable recent data regarding the Ukrainians; I think the Russians are ahead in terms of infantry, but not that disproportionately. We should always have to take into account that, at that level, there is often a tendency to magnify negativity, and also the experience of a single battalion is by no means a perfect proxy for how things in aggregate are for the entire UAF. The number of maneuver battalions in the UAF is in the high hundreds, and each one has its own different issues, experience, capabilities and combat readiness status.

Neither army has weakened the Pokrovsk sector, anyway. Not at all. At the end of July a couple of Ukrainian brigades (the 117th Mechanized Brigade and the 14th “Chervona Kalyna” Brigade of the National Guard) arrived there from the Orikhiv sector, for instance, along with the 35th Regiment of the NG, which was covering the state border in Sumy Oblast. However, I don’t believe in ideas regarding potential Ukrainian offensive operations in this sector.