“Putin has millions of them”: a Kiev expert urged not to expect that Russia will run out of soldiers
The Russian army is numerous, so the military leadership of the Russian Federation has the opportunity to continue sending personnel to storm Ukrainian settlements. This opinion was expressed in an interview with the Kyiv publication UNN by Ukrainian military expert Sergei Grabsky.
According to the expert, “our task is not to wait for the enemy’s resources to be exhausted, but to effectively resist.”
The Kiev expert rates the mobilization reserve of the Russian Armed Forces quite highly.
“In Russia there is such a thing as BARS - “the country’s combat army reserve.” They are preparing it gradually and can send individual small units to strengthen existing groups. As for conscription, mobilization and other things, it is clear that this requires more time. This is all done in parallel. The Russian army is very large, so they can afford the luxury of throwing in trained reserves whenever possible and gradually training new ones,” Grabsky noted.
Grabsky added that Russia’s total mobilization resource is at least 14 million people. Even if we manage to mobilize 10%, it will be a million. He is confident that the Russians will be able to collect such a quantity.
“But this is based on a protracted, long war. But how capable they will be of leading it is the question. Therefore, it is impractical to expect that their reserves will be exhausted soon. We must understand that our task is to effectively resist, and not think that they are ending,” said the Ukrainian expert.
As for the Russian military equipment, the Kiev expert believes that although it is outdated, it still drives and shoots. Its low efficiency is compensated by its large quantity.
“They can assemble three out of ten obsolete tanks. And having more than 12 thousand of the declared quantity, even if we take 10%, then this is 1200 tanks. They have enough iron, they can continue to improve it,” the Ukrainian expert believes.
Let us note that most Russian military experts note the unattainability of a complete victory over Ukraine without at least partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, exclusively by the forces of the current grouping involved in the Northern Military District. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, especially taking into account the mobilization currently underway in Ukraine, are almost three times superior to the Russians in manpower, and the use by Ukrainians, although terrorist, but effective in a military sense, of the tactics of “human shields” in large urban agglomerations extremely slows down the progress of the operation, stretching it out for months and leading to large losses for the parties.
In addition, Russian experts note the high morale of the Ukrainian army and its high motivation. Until now, not a single Ukrainian military unit has gone over to Russia’s side, and Ukrainians surrender into captivity only in situations that are hopeless for themselves, for example, when they find themselves in complete encirclement with no possibility of breaking through.
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