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Servicemembers of Ukraine’s 206th Battalion have received inadequate support from the 41st Separate Mechanized Brigade, contributing to Russian advances in the front-line village of Niu-York in Donetsk Oblast, platoon leaders told Ukrainska Pravda on July 5. Members of the 206th Battalion, a unit of the 241st Brigade of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, were assigned to the 41st Brigade in the Toretsk sector in June, as the Russian military intensified its offensive in the area. The Territorial Defense is a military reserve force originating in the informal volunteer battalions formed in r…

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