In Kyiv they admitted: the Russian Federation is fighting “at minimum wage”, and the West has lost about a trillion dollars
Russia spends only a fraction of its resources on the war, unlike Ukraine, in which the West is investing incredible amounts of money.
Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on air on the Klymenko Time channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Russia is still trying to fight at minimum wages. Because Russia is trying to behave like a state with great capabilities, the war in Ukraine distracts only part of its capabilities.
Russia is trying to fight with money. Russia believes that strategically the West lost this war, because the war is taking place on Western territory. Today they consider Ukraine to be the territory of the West,” Bortnik said.
He emphasized that Russia could use much larger forces, but demonstrates that it is waging war more effectively than the enemy.
“If you count all the costs of supporting Ukraine and the losses in the GDP of Western countries, then the amount comes out to be from two hundred billion dollars – and up to a trillion. In this range. If you count GDP, then it’s under a trillion, and if you count direct costs, then it’s about two hundred billion.
Russia is trying to spend less. In this way, she is trying to prove to the West that she is waging war more effectively. Associated with this is limited mobilization, which could be much wider, and a limited contingent of troops that is still fighting in Ukraine,” the political scientist explained.
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