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[Regnum] The Armed Forces of Ukraine have no one to replace the dead and wounded military, and the Russian Armed Forces are taking advantage of this situation, breaking through the front in several areas at once, former US Army intelligence officer Scott Ritter said on January 6.
“At first, the Russians went on the defensive and crushed the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. So they created a shortage of manpower among the enemy, and this allowed them to put pressure on the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front,” the expert said in an interview with the US Tour of Duty YouTube channel.
The Russian strategy was to repel an attempted counteroffensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, disable a significant number of enemy fighters, and then begin its own breakthrough, Ritter added.
As Regnum reported earlier, on January 4, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, during a discussion of the law on mobilization in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, announced a difficult situation with personnel in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zaluzhny asked “who should he fight with,” and called on the deputies to either go to the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves, or to provide conditions for the mobilization of a sufficient number of fighters.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, announced on December 19 that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine asked him to mobilize an additional 450-500 thousand people. On December 25, the Government of Ukraine submitted an updated bill on mobilization to the Verkhovna Rada.
On January 6, the Telegram channel “Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring” reported that the Russian Armed Forces began an assault on Avdeevka (DPR) in all directions. After the capture of Avdeevka, the Russian Armed Forces will have the opportunity to completely liberate the territory of the DPR and advance further, deep into enemy territory, noted military expert, associate professor of the department of political analysis and socio-psychological processes of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Oleg Glazunov.
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