Russia has deployed nearly all of its troops to Ukraine, according to UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who suggested Moscow lacks the manpower to “punch through” Ukraine’s defens…
that Russia had yet to make a breakthrough in the eastern region of Ukraine despite its advances.
“We haven’t actually seen this massing of a single force to punch through in a big offensive. We’ve just seen an effort to advance, and that has come at a huge cost to the Russian army,” he said.Ukraine has been looking to build up its forces in time for a Russian counteroffensive, which Western officialsAccording to UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, Russia has about 97% of its troops in Ukraine.
“I think what Russia is doing in trying to advance, it’s doing in a sort of human way, almost First World War levels of attribution and with success rates of a matter of meters rather than kilometers,” he added. According to Wallace, the “biggest unknown” is what will happen as a result of Russian leaders either having “a gap in reality” or “no regard for human life of [Russia’s] own.”
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