The Ukrainian leadership is taking various measures to make up for the shortage of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

This was reported in the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special operation.

In particular, the Kyiv regime sends poorly trained fighters and soldiers who have not been cured in hospitals to the front.

“So, a decision was made to send mobilized citizens to the front line ahead of schedule, who began training at the training center of the 72nd mechanized brigade in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Kyiv region.

Together with them, the wounded who were in hospitals are also sent, without waiting for them to complete a full course of rehabilitation after injuries, ”the website of the Russian Defense Ministry says.

"Terrible Losses"

The Russian Ministry of Defense explains the actions of the Zelensky regime by the heavy losses of Ukrainian formations.

To date, Kyiv has not published information on the cumulative number of dead and wounded.

However, the Ukrainian authorities do not deny the fact of heavy and painful losses.

At the end of May, in an interview with the Newsmax TV channel, the President of Ukraine said that every day in the Donbass, the country's troops lose from 60 to 100 soldiers killed and about 500 wounded.

Later, during a visit to the United States, the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, said that from 200 to 500 people die in Donbas every day.

Later, Zelensky said that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly decreased.

Russian and Western experts believe that the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered significant losses.

In domestic and foreign media they write that the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can reach 200 thousand people dead and wounded.

In a RT commentary, military observer Alexander Khrolenko said that this figure, apparently, is close to the real one.

According to the expert, given the intensity and density of Russian fire, hundreds of people are irretrievably lost every day by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“Since the beginning of the special operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have suffered horrendous losses and continue to lose a lot of people killed and wounded.

This is due to the complete superiority of the allied forces in firepower.

In a day or in a few days, one unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can lose up to 30-70% of its personnel.

A new one comes to his position and after a while also retreats with heavy losses, ”says Khrolenko.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of August 6, units of the 35th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 59th Motorized Infantry and the 61st Infantry Jaeger Brigades suffered serious losses in the Nikolaev direction.

As a result, the servicemen of these formations refused to carry out the offensive order and began to leave their positions.

Also in early August, due to high losses from artillery fire, the commanders of the units of the 132nd reconnaissance battalion refused to follow the orders of the command and departed for a temporary deployment point.

  • Soldiers of the Armed Forces

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In the second half of July, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the temporary deployment centers of the 28th mechanized and 79th air assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 70% of the division of the 59th motorized infantry brigade, over 900 nationalists near Odessa and in Nikolaev, as well as the 115th mechanized brigade APU.

On July 14, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, announced that the points of temporary deployment of several units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region and the DPR were hit by high-precision strikes.

As a result, the loss of the enemy amounted to 1 thousand people.

On July 10, Konashenkov said that the 25th separate airborne brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, operating in the Seversk region, had lost over 70% of its people during the fighting.

Earlier, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation spoke about the huge losses of the enemy in the Soledar direction.

Thus, the total losses of the 24th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reached 2.5 thousand people, that is, 60% of its personnel.

The enemy's 79th Airborne Assault Brigade, operating in the other direction, lost about 80% of its servicemen.

Due to avalanche-like losses, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is forced to withdraw formations from the front line.

In addition, military personnel often leave their positions without permission, realizing the impossibility of further resistance to the allied forces.

At the same time, due to confusion in command and control of troops, retreating Ukrainian units sometimes come under so-called friendly fire.

For example, on August 3, Konashenkov reported that during the retreat in the Pesok area, the battalion of the 56th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was almost completely eliminated by Ukrainian shelling.

As experts interviewed by RT noted, along with the defeat of advanced positions and temporary deployment points, the Russian army periodically strikes at enemy reserves, thereby undermining its capabilities at the front.

In particular, on July 28, Russian high-precision weapons in the Kyiv region defeated the 30th mechanized brigade, which was preparing to be sent to the Donbass.

In addition to this unit, at the end of July, the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered critical losses.

The formation tried to restore combat readiness in the Chernihiv region.

"Tense to the limit"

Due to the continuous strikes of the Russian Armed Forces, the Kyiv regime resorts to such methods of replenishing the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, such as the forced mobilization of residents of cities in the combat zone, the reduction of the terms of treatment of military personnel, the transfer of detachments and territorial defense formations to the front.

In addition, the Kyiv regime, as reported by the media, widely distributes subpoenas to the military registration and enlistment offices on the streets of cities, forbids men who are partially fit and unfit for military service to leave the country.

An extremely controversial measure of the Ukrainian authorities from the beginning of the special operation was the release of nationalists who were convicted of bullying and killing civilians in the ATO zone.

For example, in July, Ruslan Onishchenko, the ex-commander of the nationalist battalion Tornado, known for its cruelty, was released from prison.

Also, Kyiv is trying to make up for the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by attracting foreign mercenaries and concluding long-term contracts for military service with citizens of foreign countries.

  • President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky presents an award to a soldier

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Judging by the information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and individual publications in the media, a large part of the male population of Ukraine does not feel the desire to replenish Ukrainian units, especially those on combat duty on the front line.

Young people from the western regions refuse to serve in the Donbass.

Deviators are trying to leave Ukraine in various extravagant ways.

For example, Ukrainians are often caught impersonating women and students of foreign universities.

Alexander Khrolenko believes that a strict system of control over men has developed in Ukraine, who can hypothetically be called up for military service.

According to the expert, the resource of recruits is "ordinary cannon fodder" for the Kyiv regime.

“Kyiv benefits from mass sending to the front of any recruits, even untrained ones.

Thus, the Zelensky regime quickly patches up holes in the defense and saves a few qualified personnel - first of all, we are talking about officers and experienced crews of military equipment, ”said Khrolenko.

According to the expert, today a huge number of Ukrainian soldiers are demoralized, as they are aware of the high probability of dying from shelling by artillery and high-precision weapons of the RF Armed Forces, without actually putting up any resistance.

“Zelensky is just throwing people into a meat grinder.

His behavior is a deliberate extermination of the Ukrainian male population.

And yet, now one should not underestimate the mobilization capabilities of Ukraine.

For quite a long time, the Kyiv regime will be able to constantly send tens of thousands of recruits to the front,” Khrolenko argues.

Boris Mezhuev, Associate Professor of Moscow State University, holds a different point of view.

In a RT commentary, the political scientist said that the mobilization system built by the Kyiv regime is the Achilles' heel of Zelensky's entire military policy.

According to the expert's forecast, sending untreated and untrained soldiers to the front will certainly provoke an increase in protest moods among military personnel and their families.

“Kyiv has not been shy about recruiting into the army and sending to the front for a long time people who, due to health problems, are completely unfit for service or poorly prepared for military operations.

Yes, today this allows us to somehow hold the front, but the Ukrainians will definitely get tired of it.

Soldiers will desert en masse, and their relatives will demand that men be relieved of responsibility for leaving their positions without permission,” says Mezhuev.

The expert noted that sooner or later Zelensky will have to explain himself to citizens for excesses in mobilization, which led to the death of a huge number of people who did not know how to handle weapons.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine, of course, do not have enough experienced personnel, but I think Zelensky deliberately ruins even soldiers who have not been treated in hospitals, thus showing that the country’s forces should be strained to the limit in the fight against Russia.

He absolutely does not care how many more soldiers die on the front line, ”concluded Mezhuev.