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[RIA Novosti] Prigozhin estimated the number of Ukrainian troops assembled for the counteroffensive at 200,000
Kiev has prepared about two hundred thousand people for the counteroffensive, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, said at a meeting of Cyber Front Z, the video was published on the movement's Telegram channel.
"They have collected about 200,000, according to some sources - up to 400,000 personnel, this cannot be underestimated," he said.
Earlier in April, the New York Times, citing secret US documents on Ukraine leaked to the Web , claimed that the Kiev authorities had to transfer elite troops near Artemovsk , which they counted on during the counteroffensive. It is noted that this led to "strategic costs" for the country.
As Reuters reported earlier this week, Kyiv has trained eight assault brigades of the so-called offensive guard. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview with the Wyborcza newspaper that a counteroffensive could begin when the mudslide stops.
Kiev and Western military experts and politicians have repeatedly named the Zaporozhye region as one of the strike directions in order to reach the coast of the Sea of Azov in order to cut the land corridor to the Crimea.
In turn, in this region, as well as in other new subjects of Russia , they declared that they had prepared for any actions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
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