Kiev expects Russia to call up to half a million more troops in the coming months: “Russia will mobilize 300-500 thousand people to carry out offensive operations in southern and eastern Ukraine in the coming spring and summer,” said Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy chief of Ukrainian defense intelligence, quoted by CNN. “The 500,000 add up to the 300,000 recalled in October. This shows that Putin’s Kremlin has no intention of putting an end to the war. Moscow’s offensive may hit the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and perhaps Zaporizhzhia. Russian troops they will remain on defense in the Kherson regions and in the Crimea”.
According to the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, in the end Ukraine, despite the resistance of several Western countries, will receive the American F-16 fighter planes. “It’s only a matter of time,” he said in an interview with CNN. “They will definitely come. Sadly, in the meantime, we are losing our people as we fight for our independence,” he added.
