Zaluzhnyi: Russians are training about 200,000 new soldiers. I have no doubt that they will try to march on Kyiv again

"We have an important strategic task - to create reserves and prepare for the war, which may happen in February, at best in March, and at worst - at the end of January. It may start not in Donbas, but in the direction of Kyiv, in the direction of Belarus, I do not rule out the southern direction as well," the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces told The Economist.  

Valeriy Zaluzhnyi noted that Ukraine lacks ammunition stocks for the existing defence systems. Also, according to him, there is need for much more and better missile defence.

"Russian mobilisation has worked. It is not true that their problems are so dire that these people will not fight. They will. A tsar tells them to go to war, and they go to war. We estimate that they have a reserve of 1.2m-1.5m people," Zaluzhnyi commented on the mobilization of Russians.

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