His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

"And special attention was paid to shooting only single shots in order to shoot fewer cartridges, because you need to save on the counteroffensive," the military said.

He explained this by the fact that the Ukrainian army is facing a shortage of ammunition.

Kindyuk also said that the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine themselves do not believe that the counteroffensive will end in success for the Ukrainian army, since, according to him, there are no regular military personnel in the positions, but only mobilized ones.

Earlier, the assistant to the head of Chechnya, the commander of the Akhmat special forces, Apti Alaudinov, expressed confidence that the counteroffensive would end in defeat for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Former adviser to Leonid Kuchma, Oleg Soskin, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not able to attack due to a lack of weapons, personnel and missiles.