Washington: With no sign of war ending soon launched by Russia on February 24 on Ukraine, the reports are now coming in that Russia is planning to dispatch hundreds of soldiers to eastern Ukraine.

Russia is believed to be shifting its focus to the country's southern and eastern parts of Ukraine to capture them. This was told to the media by Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser of the U.S.

"At this juncture we believe Russia is revising its war aims to focus on eastern and parts of southern Ukraine rather than target most of the territory," Sullivan told reporters at the White House.

He thinks that the objective is to surround and overwhelms Ukrainian forces in the region.

This is being done essentially to achieve a tactical success and propagate a narrative of progress and also to hike the previous failures of the military operations launched over Ukraine, he said.

Believed to be the bloodiest war in Europe of history after world war-II, Russia however calls it an act aimed at protecting its civilians.

Sullivan said the Biden administration would announce fresh military assistance for Ukraine in the coming days. He said further sanctions against Russian energy are on the table in talks with European allies.

He predicted that in the next move, Russia would be making efforts to outnumber its forces. Moscow would likely seek to control a far broader swath of eastern Ukraine than separatists controlled before the invasion.
Russia is also making efforts to gain control of Kherson city which is located on the southern side of Ukraine. Russia would be launching more air and missile attacks across the rest of the country.

While U. S has been accusing Russia of killing civilians, and killings in Bucha, a town recaptured by Ukrainian troops as Russian forces regrouped, Russia however has denied the allegations.