In a column for CNN, he acknowledged that Russia has a significant advantage.

“We must recognize the significant advantage that the enemy has in mobilizing human resources and compare it with the inability of Ukraine's state institutions to increase the size of our armed forces without resorting to unpopular measures,” he said.

Zaluzhny added that Ukraine is still hampered by the imperfection of the regulatory framework, as well as the partial monopolization of the defense industry.

Earlier, the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said that for the sake of a new bill on mobilization, the Ukrainian authorities could resort to blackmail.