Thursday 30 June 2022 07:00 PM New battalions of Chechen fighters are 'preparing new assault' in Ukraine, ... trends now Russia is assembling new battalions with fearsome Chechen warriors to again attempt to launch a fresh assault on Ukraine, according to a notorious Kremlin mouthpiece. The bold claim was made by Russian-Chechen author and well-known propagandist German Sadulaev on his telegram channel, who stated that the four new battalions will be heavily armed for launching offensives. However, such claims of formidable new military units in the Russian army ring hollow against fresh reports that Vladimir Putin's forces are being 'hollowed out' by the scale of the losses they are suffering in the Donbas and overall. British military chiefs have assessed that the enormous expenditure of manpower and materiel by the Russian army in taking the city of Severodonetsk last week has yielded only 'tactical successes'. 'The Russian armed forces are increasingly hollowed out,' came the latest intelligence update from the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday. 'They currently accept a level of degraded combat effectiveness, which is probably unsustainable in the long term.' Russia is assembling new battalions with fearsome Chechen warriors to again attempt to launch a fresh assault on Ukraine, according to Russian-Chechen author and well-known propagandist German Sadulaev. Pictured: Servicemen take part in a review of the Chechen Republic's troops and military hardware at the residence of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic on Feb 25