Kyiv’s deputy military intelligence chief says force will form part of new offensives over spring and summer
Ukraine’s military intelligence has claimed that Russia is set to order the mobilisation of as many as 500,000 conscripts in January in addition to the 300,000 it called up in October, in another apparent sign that Vladimir Putin has no intention of ending the war.
Meanwhile, fighting appeared to have continued across the contact line in the eastern Donetsk region. In the summer, Ukraine’s national security chief, Oleksii Danilov, said a million Ukrainians were gaining combat experience, although it is probable only a minority of this number are on active duty. Andrey Gurulyov, a retired Russian colonel general and Duma deputy, said on Wednesday there were “no reasons or conditions” for Moscow to announce a second mobilisation in the next six months.
“There will be a second wave of mobilisation. We will be forced to carry out the second, and maybe the third wave. To win in Ukraine, we will need to call up at least another half a million soldiers,” Strelkov said, adding that the new mobilisation drive would be held in late February, on the anniversary of the start of the war.
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