Russia Used 82% Of The Total Forces It Arrayed Around Ukraine: Report

A week into the Ukraine invasion, reports claim that Russia has sent to combat 82 percent of the forces it had lined outside the country prior to the invasion.

According to a senior U.S. defense official, this is a minimal increase over the previous day, reported The Hill. It was 80 percent Tuesday and not a "significant influx."

"We would assess that there essentially has been no appreciable movement closer to the city than what we briefed a couple of days ago. Basically, they remain stalled outside the city center," the official told reporters.

The official added that the Russians, however, have fired more than 450 missiles of "all stripes and sizes," including cruise and ballistic types, at Ukraine.

According to U.S. officials, Putin is "continuing to add to his options" when it comes to deploying more troops to aid Russian forces. However, the U.S. does not believe that the Belarusian forces have joined the invasion.

The report added that the airspace over Ukraine continues to be contested even after a week and that effective coordination between Russian forces on the ground and in the air, as well as missile units in the rear, still "appears to be lacking."

Meanwhile, the much-watched 40-mile-long military convoy heading toward Kyiv has reportedly been "stalled" due to a lack of fuel, food, and fierce Ukrainian resistance.

"They are not moving at any rate that would lead one to believe that they've solved their problems. So we would characterize it as stalled," the U.S. official was quoted by The Hill. "We have some indications that [Ukrainians] have also at places and at times tried to target this convoy.”

The U.S. expects that the Russian military will take steps to rectify the situation and that it still has significant combat capacity to commit to its operations in Ukraine.

However, the Russian forces are advancing on other cities, including the southern port of Mariupol. There are also "preliminary indications" that Russian troops would move to Mariupol from the Donetsk region, with an advance "from multiple directions" to encircle the city.

The U.S. officials still consider Kherson, which reportedly has been occupied by Russian forces, as a "contested city."

Meanwhile, social media footage shows a Russian Project 11356 Admiral Grigorovich class frigate sailing in the Black Sea close to the coast near the Ukrainian port city of Odesa.