Deputy Air Marshal Sean Bell has conducted an analysis on aggression in Ukraine as Russian forces continue their offensive to the east.

According to Sky News, the Telegraph reports, he said that Russian progress in the east was now "more clinical" and "more focused".

"It is very clear that the strategy now is to take the Luhansk region and then take the Donetsk region and do it in small parts along the way," said the British military analyst.

Bell went on to say that Russian forces had also taken the "strategically important" Lyman region in the Donbas.

He said: "This is strategically important because there are some railway networks and there are also some bridges across the river that will be important for the next phase of the operation."

The military analyst added: "The Russians are making slow progress.

"It's very costly, it's brutal, it's almost medieval in the way they run it."

The advance of Russian forces on the Donbas industrial region of eastern Ukraine has raised fears that cities in the region would suffer the same horrors as the people of Mariupol in the weeks leading up to its fall.

But despite these developments, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised that Donbas will be "Ukrainian again."

Speaking during his speech Friday night, Zelensky called the current situation in Donbas "very difficult", referring to Russia's growing firepower and military capabilities in the region.

"This is why we need to increase our defense, increase our resistance and Donbas will be Ukrainian again.

"Even if Russia brings all the suffering and devastation to the Donbas, we will rebuild every city, every community," Zelensky said.

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