British army so depleted it could only ‘seize a small market town on a good day’

Jack Watling, a senior research fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), agreed with the brutal assessment. “The Ukrainians trying to defend Bakhmut lost 10,000 people, killed and wounded over the course of the defence of Bakhmut, which is a small market town, and that would almost be the entire infantry force in the British military,” he warned. The researcher also warned that the UK is critically short of artillery, after having given large amounts to Ukraine