Ukraine war latest: Battles in Donbas will look like World War Two, says Ukraine - BBC News
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba calls on Nato allies to provide more weapons immediately as Russia focuses its war on the east of the country.
Land warfare analyst Nick Reynolds, who works for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank, has been filling us in on what the next few weeks of the war in Ukraine might look like, as Russia shifts its focus to the area in the south and east known as the Donbas.

Was Ukraine's foreign minister accurate when he said the fighting in the Donbas could be reminiscent of World War Two?

“Yes I think that’s accurate," Reynolds said. "With all the forces freed up from the north of Ukraine… we’re going to see a clash of arms on European soil that hasn’t been seen for generations."

Could Ukraine actually take back territory?

There are a lot of unknown factors here, Reynolds says.

Many Ukrainians will be buoyed up by the withdrawal of Russian forces in the north, but in the south and east “the map has still been slowly turning red”, he says, and that's even before any reinforcements have arrived from the north.

So Russia certainly still has some forwards momentum in the south and east, he says.

How much difference could Western arms make?

The weapons Western countries have so far sent to Ukraine have been game-changing but Nato has handed over a "significant amount of its stocks - and that supply was finite", Reynolds says.

Western arms will be "absolutely essential" in the coming weeks but it's hard to know how they can get them to where they need to go, he adds.

Ramping up industrial production of sophisticated weapons such as Javelins, NLAWs and Stingers is not easy, he says, as they have complex supply chains, He believes Western governments are struggling to keep up with demand.

Switchblade drones could “start to change things on the ground within a short timeframe” – but there’s “very little else” that could do so, he adds.