From Luhansk, Serguiï Gaïdaï recognizes on France 24 that "air cover would be ideal" to allow a counter-offensive.
But "if we are provided with tanks and armored transport", this offensive will be done "all the same", he insists.
The governor relativizes Western concerns about a shortage of ammunition on the Ukrainian side.
With a longer range, more modern, more precise, Western weapons indeed make it possible to ensure "parity" against those of the Russians", certainly numerous, but essentially of Soviet manufacture.
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Serguiï Gaïdaï confirmed the presence in the region of Iranian trainers, teaching drone piloting, reconnaissance and attack.
The governor of Louhansk also notes that of Wagner fighters, "few in number", and some of whom "call themselves" Wagner soldiers.
Ukraine, one year later © France Médias Monde graphic studio
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