Ukraine’s frontline is “crumbling” against Russian advances, one of Kyiv’s general has admitted.

Col-Gen Dmytro Marchenko said a dwindling supply of ammunition was one the main reasons for Ukraine’s weakening frontline and described Volodymyr Zelensky’s “victory plan” as misguided.

“I won’t be revealing a military secret if I say that our front has crumbled,” he told a former Ukrainian MP in an interview posted on YouTube.

This week Russian forces claimed the capture of the town of Selydove, which had a pre-war population of around 20,000 people and lies between Donetsk and Pokrovsk.

Pokrovsk is a major Ukrainian logistics hub that the Russian army has made a priority target.