As Russia praises the hundreds of thousands of reservists who have bolstered its army in recent weeks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that the new troops were ill-prepared for battle.
“Today the enemy informs about the supposed conclusion of the mobilization, about supposedly not needing new waves of sending Russian citizens to the front. But we felt the exact opposite on the front lines,” Zelensky said in a speech.
“Russia is trying to increase pressure on our positions using the deployed ones, but they are so poorly trained and equipped, so grossly used by the command, that this suggests that Russia may soon need a new wave of deployments. of people to war,” he explained.
He added that Ukraine is preparing for the Russian government to look for more opportunities to prolong the conflict.
Also on Friday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that the mobilization request has been completed, and the target of 300,000 deployed citizens has been met.
The mobilization order got off to a rocky start and proved controversial within the country, prompting protests and concerns from human rights groups that ethnic minorities would be disproportionately chosen to be mobilized.
Source: CNN Brasil
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