Russia does not show any signs that it would plan to end the war in Ukraine, an estimated 695,000 soldiers located across the extended front line and another 121,000 in a strategic reserve, according to the commander of Ukraine by Oleksandra Syrskyi.
With the invasion of Moscow, the Russian army is able to mobilize an average of about 9,000 new soldiers per month, he said. Bloomberg was unable to verify the numbers independently.
“They are preparing for a lengthy war, wear war.
Syrskyi spoke the day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine had to recognize “reality on Earth”, a legacy in the territory of eastern and southern Ukraine occupied by his forces.
Since March, Ukraine and its Western partners have been trying to push Russia to a ceasefire. While US President Donald Trump had previously threatened that he could consider more sanctions if Moscow refused a ceasefire, the American leader frustrated allies by rejecting pressure to put stricter sanctions last week at the G-7 summit in Canada.
Ukraine will continue deep strikes in Russian territory and expand their depth and scale, Syrskyi said. Such attacks – often focused on targets hundreds of kilometers from front lines – are the most effective way to cause military damage to Russia, he added.
Syrskyi hovered the possibility of new contraffenis, but did not provide any specific details. Simply defense does not bring anything except slow loss of land and labor, he said.
“Of course we will not simply stay at full defensive,” Syrskyi said
President Volodymyr Zelenka appointed Brigadier General Hennadia Shapovalov on Thursday as the new commander of the ground forces of Ukraine, when the nation is preparing to fight the last pressure of Russia. It is expected that the resolution of the lack of soldiers will be a priority.
Syrskyi said that from mid -June the front line in the east and southeast of the country has been developing about 1,200 kilometers, which is about 200 km in the past year. Only on the last day of the Ukrainian ground troops forgave about 171 clashes.
Although the Kremlin forces are trying to set up the bumper zone on the Ukrainian territory in the sum of the sums, Kiev troops maintain support in Kursk, he said last summer after a cross -border offensive.
“Ukraine controls 90 square kilometers of the Glushkovskyi district in Kursk Olstast, Syrskyi said. “These are our preventive actions in response to a possible Russian offensive.”
Syrskyi defended Ukraine’s operations in Kursk and said that it allowed Kiev soldiers to tie Russian forces there. Several Russian units turned to Ukraine east and southeast in April, where the Kremlin units slowly gained land, was forced to move to the regions of Kursk and the sum.
Independently, Ukrainian forces managed to stabilize the attempt at Russia to progress in the area of the sum, where in recent days it has about 50,000 soldiers, including re -checking over a handful of settlements, Syrskyi said.
Putin said on Friday that the Moscow offensive in the region was aimed at creating a “leveling zone” beyond about 10 to 12 kilometers wide. Russia has no goal to take the sum-including a city with a pre-war population of about 250,000-“But we do not exclude it,” he said.
“We have a proverb or parable – wherever our Russian soldier is.”
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